Measuring pain after the removal of the appendix
Using this software, the researchers analyzed facial expressions of 50 suffering children, ages 5 18.
All study participants were patients of Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, where they had undergone surgery, the removal of the appendix through laparoscopy.
The researchers filmed the children at three different intervals after surgery: the day after surgery the next day, and then at a control visit between two and four weeks after surgery. Video recordings made using the software were compared with self-reports of pain for children and those issued by the medical staff and the parents of younger children.
“ The software demonstrated good or excellent, accurate assessment of pain , said Dr. Huang. Overall, this technology has yielded results as good as those of the parents and best as nurses. It also showed strong correlations with self-reports of patients. “
The pain of children is often underestimated
Children and adolescents generally express their level of pain on a scale from zero to ten, but this method is not always possible to accurately assess pain. Medical staff must sometimes perform clinical tests of pain assessment, but even with the help of parents, these tests often underestimate the sensations felt by small, explains the author of the study, Jeannie Huang.
In addition, these pain tests are often organized at the request of the hospital staff, which does not necessarily coincide with the most relevant times for the child, does precisely -it
Now, “ accurate pain assessment is a fundamental principle of the supply of care ,” said the researcher, emphasizing the prevention of Pain is not a matter of comfort, she participated in Healing: Several studies have shown that untreated pain could result in adverse surgical consequences
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Source Automated Assessment of Children’s Pain Postoperative Using Computer Vision , Jeannie S. Huang and al, June 2015, Pediatrics (abstract available online) <. / p>
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