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Determining Pain Detection and Tolerance Thresholds Using an Integrated, Multi-Modal Pain Task Battery
Published on: April 14, 2016
Physiological Measures of Acute and Chronic Pain within Different Subject Groups: A Systematic Review
H Korving1,2, P S Sterkenburg1,3, E I Barakova2
1Department of Behavioral and Movement Sciences, Clinical Child and Family Studies, Amsterdam Public Health, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 7, Amsterdam 1081 BT, Netherlands.
Results:
The methods' heart rate variability and electroencephalogram show clear and consistent results as acute pain assessment. Magnetic resonance imaging can measure chronic pain. Ordered by invasiveness and vulnerability, a trend shows that the invasive methods are used more with less vulnerable subjects. Only instruments used for skin conductance and automatic facial recognition have a lower-than-average technological maturity.
Conclusions:
Some pain assessment methods show good and consistent results and have high technological maturity; however, using them as pain assessment for persons with ID is uncommon. Since this addition can ameliorate caregiving, more research of assessment methods should occur.
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