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Pain is a first-person experience that must be reported, verbally or nonverbally,
to be correctly assessed. How, then, is pain perception determined in persons who
are noncommunicative ?
This determination is a major clinical challenge because
patients with disorders of consciousness are unable to communicate their feelings
and possible pain experiences. This review will describe the current knowledge of
evaluating pain perception in a minimally conscious state compared with an
unconscious state (also known as vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness
syndrome) and how to approach the management of pain in these 2 populations.
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