Evaluation of an App Based on Artificial Intelligence for Pain Assessment in Pediatric Department

Launched by CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE NICE · Sep 1, 2022

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ClinConnect Summary

Acute pain is the reason that the majority of patients present to the Emergency Department. Multiple studies conducted over many years have demonstrated that pain is poorly managed in the Emergency Department. This phenomenon has been referred to in the Medical Literature as "Oligoanalgesia.". Morever, untreated pain can have short and long term effects in Pediatric population, including sensitisation to pain episodes in later life and can affects the Neurodevelopment of the child.

The generally accepted standard for pain assessment is self-reported; however, in preverbal children who cann...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Child under 18
• • Informed and written consent of a parent or guardian (only 1 accompanying person allowed).
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Language barrier.
• • Refusal to participate by parents/children
• • Sign of collapsus, or in serious clinical condition (stage I or II) requiring absolute emergency care,
• • Delayed mental or staturo-ponderal development
• • Facial injury or wound, presence of a bandage on the face, pre-existing facial deformity