Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 26, Issue 2 , Pages 83-90 , April 2010

Are vital signs valid indicators for the assessment of pain in postoperative cardiac surgery ICU adults?

  • Caroline Arbour

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    • Centre for Nursing Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: McGill University, School of Nursing, 3506, University Street, Montreal (Quebec), H3A 2A7 Canada. Tel.: +1 514 398 6157.
    • ,
  • Céline Gélinas

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    • Centre for Nursing Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

,Accepted 13 November 2009.

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PII: S0964-3397(09)00110-4

doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2009.11.003

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 26, Issue 2 , Pages 83-90 , April 2010

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