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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Pain Observation"”.
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Pain Observation, Empathy, and the Sensorimotor System: Behavioural and Neurophysiological Explorations
… has established that observing another in pain activates both affective and sensorimotor cortical activity that is also present during the first-hand experience of pain. Some researchers have taken this “mirroring” response as indicative of empathic processing. However, very little work has …
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POTENTIALLY AVOIDABLE CHEST PAIN OBSERVATION UNIT UTILIZATION: ADMISSION OF VERY-LOW-RISK PATIENTS
Chest Pain Observation Units (CPOUs) have objective criteria to prevent placement of excessively high-risk patients into these units. However, similar criteria do not exist to identify very-low-risk patients who could potentially avoid CPOU admission. The objective of this study was to quantify the …
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Comparison of the Behavioral Pain Scale and the Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool in Assessing Pain in Ventilated Critical Care Patients
… study aimed to compare the Behavioral Pain Scale (BPS) and the Critical Care Pain Observation Tool (CPOT) in their effectiveness to identify the presence of pain in nonverbal mechanically ventilated critically ill patients. Nurses’ evaluation with the feasibility, clinical relevance, …
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The Respiratory Distress Observation Scale (RDOS), Pain, and Agitation
The Respiratory Distress Observation Scale (RDOS) is relatively new and has not been extensively evaluated. The purpose of this study was to, a) explore the incidence and severity of respiratory distress in the cognitively impaired adult patient on mechanical ventilation, b) examine the …
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Examining empathy in Autism Spectrum Disorders: cognitive, subjective and physiological correlates of the perception of pain
… empathy, and empathic concern for (1) sensory pain and (2) facial pain expressions, controlling for alexithymia (N = 98); and examined the evidence for atypical autonomic arousal at rest and during empathy-induction in individuals with ASD. Autism traits were negatively correlated with …