Ian Cave reports the findings of a study into patients’ perceptions of pain in accident and emergency
Remember the last shift you worked in the A&E department and visualise, for a moment, the patients who were around you that day: those with a sprained ankle or a cut hand, those returning for a painful wound to be redressed, those with abdominal or chest pain and children with scalds... the list goes on. The vast majority had pain to some degree or other.
Emergency Nurse. 2, 2, 19-20. doi: 10.7748/en.2.2.19.s5
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