Updates to three guides in our category Pain Assessment and Management:
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• Acute postoperative pain assessment
• Use of patient-controlled analgesia
• Using Entonox to relieve pain
#nursing #elearning #painrelief #PainAssessment

Synthetic 3D Faces Enable Accurate AI Pain Assessment

The 3DPain dataset provides 82,500 synthetic facial samples from 2,500 balanced identities, and ViTPain model uses distillation for pain intensity estimation. Read more: getnews.me/synthetic-3d-faces-enabl... #synthetic3dfaces #painassessment

New Core Outcome Set for Chronic Pain in CP: 20 validated tools to assess pain interference and emotional impact in children with cerebral palsy.

#CerebralPalsy #PainAssessment #ClinicalResearch #PatientCenteredCare #ICFFramework
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Influence of Pre-Existing Pain on the Body’s Response to External Pain Stimuli: Experimental Study Background: Accurately assessing pain severity is essential for effective pain treatment and desirable patient outcomes. In clinical settings, pain intensity assessment relies on self-reporting methods, which are subjective to individuals and impractical for non-communicative or critically ill patients. Previous studies have attempted to measure pain objectively using physiological responses to an external pain stimulus, assuming that the human subject is free of internal body pain. However, this approach does not reflect the situation in a clinical setting, where a patient subjected to an external pain stimulus may already be experiencing internal body pain. Objective: This study investigates the hypothesis that an individual’s physiological response to external pain varies in the presence of preexisting pain. Methods: We recruited 39 healthy participants aged 22–37, including 23 females and 16 males. Physiological signals – Electrodermal Activity (EDA) and Electromyography (EMG) – were recorded while participants were subject to a combination of preexisting heat pain and cold pain stimuli. Feature #engineering methods were applied to extract time-series features, and statistical analysis using ANOVA was conducted to assess significance. Results: We found that the preexisting pain influences the body’s physiological responses to an external pain stimulus. Several features—particularly those related to temporal statistics, successive differences, and distributions—showed statistically significant variation across varying preexisting pain conditions, with P-values less than .05 depending on the feature and stimulus. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that preexisting pain alters the body’s physiological response to new pain stimuli, highlighting the importance of considering pain history in objective pain assessment models.

New JMIR BioMedEng: Influence of Pre-Existing Pain on the Body’s Response to External Pain Stimuli: Experimental Study #PainManagement #ClinicalResearch #PainAssessment #HealthScience #ExperimentalStudy

☀️ The seasonal summer break can be a great time to look back at sessions you might have missed during term. We've uploaded some past webinars to our YouTube so you can catch up! 💻 @adelinacohe.bsky.social
First up! 'Intelligent #PainAssessment in #LongtermCare'
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Missed our webinar? It’s now available on demand!
Dr. Matt Leach shares an evidence-based approach to pain assessment in lab animals (rodents & rabbits).

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#3Rs #LabAnimals #PainAssessment

Free Webinar: Part of our Monthly Responsible Research Series!

Join Dr. Matt Leach & Dr. Nikki Osborne to learn how to assess pain in lab animals.

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Objective pain score? Here’s the problem with that
#Health #PainAssessment #ObjectivePain #SubjectivePain #MedicalEthics #PainMeasurement #HealthTech #Pain #PhilosophyOfPain #Biomarkers #HealthcareInnovation #PainScale #Philosophy
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2/5 🐐🤖 We humans are biased when interpreting animal pain. This AI bypasses that by learning directly from goat facial expressions. Researchers videotaped 40 goats, creating thousands of images, and trained the AI to recognize patterns associated with pain. #MachineLearning #PainAssessment