1. Figure Legend: Medical Intensive Care Unit Patients
Anesthes. 2007;107(5): doi: /01.anes
Figure Legend:
Fig. 1. Causes of all of the episodes of pain at rest in the surgical-trauma group  versus  the medical group. This figure shows all of the causes of pain for the 105 communicating patients. Causes for the 81 episodes of pain in the 71 surgical-trauma patients and the 39 episodes in the 34 medical patients were pooled together for each group, and the groups were then compared with each other (chi-square test). The site of injury responsible for admission is the main cause of pain at rest for surgical-trauma patients, whereas the back and limbs were the main cause of pain at rest in medical patients. The site of injury responsible for intensive care unit admission was identified for trauma patients, as was the surgical site for surgical patients. In medical patients, the site of injury responsible for intensive care unit admission was defined by the disease-related area (  e.g.  , pancreatitis, esophagitis, pleuritis, myocardial infarction). Abdominal pain, not including surgical-trauma injury or pancreatitis, was defined by a pain that occurred several days after surgery or pancreatitis and differed from the initial injury of the abdominal tissues (  e.g.  , reoccurrence of intestinal transit, intestinal spasm, ileus, peptic ulcerations of the stomach). A pain event in communicating patients was defined by a numerical rating scale score greater than 3.  6
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