Determination of the degree of pain in patients with acute calculous cholecystitis on the background of chronic viral hepatitis

Abstract

Relevance: Pain syndrome is the main symptom of acute calculous cholecystitis (ACC), and determining the intensity of pain syndrome is considered one of the important criteria for assessing the severity of the patient’s condition, therefore great attention is paid to detailing this complaint. Measuring pain severity in real clinical practice represents a complex methodological and organizational problem. A single scale for assessing the intensity of the pain syndrome has not been created. Scales or questionnaires based on self­assessment of pain by patients are most often used. Purpose: For quantitative assessment of pain intensity in the preoperative period, we used a linear visual­analog scale, which is a line 10 cm long on a blank sheet of paper. The patient was asked to mark the point corresponding to the degree of severity of pain.