Comparison of Verbal Rating Scale and Numerical Rating Scale in Post Anesthesia Care Unit

Seoul National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postoperative Pain; Pain Measurement; Acute Pain

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03768102

SNUMR2-3

Details and patient eligibility

About

In the postanesthetic care unit(PACU), patients who are recovering from anesthesia are not easy to communicate with. Accordingly, accurate evaluation of acute surgical pain is difficult for PACU patients in spite of severe postoperative pain. Therefore, pain evaluation is clinically important and challenging in PACU. The pain evaluation tool should be simple and easy to understand for accurate assessment. Among the most commonly used pain assessment methods are numerical rating scale(NRS), visual analogue scale(VAS) and verbal rating scale(VRS). These three methods have proved valid for clinical situations in many studies. VRS appears to be easier to understand than the other two methods for patients in PACU. The purpose of this study is to compare NRS and VRS in PACU patients.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult patients who underwent general anesthesia
• The American Society of Anesthesiologists(ASA) physical status classification system : class 1, 2, 3

Exclusion criteria

• The American Society of Anesthesiologists(ASA) physical status classification system : class 4, 5