Assessment and management of persistent (chronic) and total wound pain

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Wiley InterScience

International Wound Journal

Volume 5 Issue 2, Pages 205 - 215

Published Online: 20 May 2008

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Assessment and management of persistent (chronic) and total wound pain

Kevin Woo ¹ , Gary Sibbald ² , Karsten Fogh ³ , Chris Glynn ⁴ , Diane Krasner ⁵ , David Leaper ⁶ , Jurgen Österbrink ⁷ , Patricia Price ⁸ , Luc Teot ⁹

¹ Kevin Y Woo, RN, MSc, PhD(C), GNC(C), Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; ²R Gary Sibbald, MD, FRCPC, Med, Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; ³Karsten Fogh, MD, DMSci, Department of Dermatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; ⁴Chris Glynn, MD, FRCAm, Pain Relief Unit, Churchill Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK; ⁵Diane L Krasner, RN, PhD, CWCN, CWS, BCLNC, FAAN, Wound & Skin Care Consultant, York, USA; ⁶David Leaper, MD, ChM, FRCS, FACS, North Tees Hospital, Stockton on Tees, UK; ⁷Jurgen Osterbrink, PhD RN RNA School of Nursing, Hospital of Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany; ⁸Patricia Price, BA (Hons) PhD AFBPsS CHPsychol, Wound Healing Research Unit, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK; ⁹Luc Teot, MD, PhD, Department of Plastic Surgery, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France

Correspondence to KY Woo, Women's College Hospital, 76 Grenville Street, Toronto, Canada M5S1B2
E-mail: kevin.woo@wchospital.ca

Woo KY, Sibbald RG, Fogh K, Glynn C, Krasner D, Leaper D, Österbrink J, Price P, Teot L. Assessment and management of persistent (chronic) and total wound pain. Int Wound J 2008;5:205–215.

ABSTRACT

Persistent (chronic) wound-related pain is a common experience that requires appropriate assessment and treatment. It is no longer adequate for health care professionals to concentrate on the acute (temporary) pain during dressing change alone. The study provides useful recommendations and statements for assessing and managing total wound-related pain for patients, health care professionals and other policymakers. The recommendations have been developed with the involvement of an interprofessional panel of health care professionals from around the world.

Received: 09 April 2008; Accepted: 13 May 2008;

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