Pupillometry for pain assessment in noncommunicating children in the pediatric intensive care unit: a prospective accuracy study
A Portefaix, M Rabilloud, F Baudin, E Dantony, T Ginhoux, B Kassaï-Koupaï, E Javouhey, F Bordet · 2026
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Description
Children in intensive care who cannot speak cannot say when they hurt, and Portefaix and co-authors tested a pupil-based pain gauge for them in work from twenty twenty-six. The gauge reads pupil size shifts with a video tool at the bedside. The study ran in one French unit, with nurses scoring pain by a known scale while blind to the gauge.
Sixty-six children on breathing machines gave more than two hundred paired readings. The gauge sorted pain only fairly, and its match with nurse scores was weak. At a high catch rate for pain, it cleared pain-free states just half the time. Use was hard in tiny babies and in restless children. The authors call the tool a weak stand-alone test.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | A Portefaix, M Rabilloud, F Baudin, E Dantony, T Ginhoux, B Kassaï-Koupaï, E Javouhey, F Bordet |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |