Pain Monitoring and Management in Intensive Care Unit: A Narrative Rev

• 17/05/2024

  Pain is defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience. Among patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), severe untreated pain is associated with an increase in mortality, length of hospital stays and worsening in everyday quality of life after hospital discharge. Pain in critically ill patients is more difficult to monitor and manage due to several factors, such as the...