USE OF PAIN SCALE IN CHILDREN WITH CHEST PAIN: AN OBSERVATION IN TERMS OF CARDIAC ORIGIN

Authors : Celal Varan, Haci Ballı

Pages : 460-465

Doi:10.18229/kocatepetip.1381439

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Publication Date : 2024-10-21

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :OBJECTIVE: Chest pain in children and adolescents is usually due to non-cardiac causes. The basic assumption in distinguishing the etiology is the cardiologic evaluation. The relationship between the severity of pain and its cardiologic etiology has not been investigated before. This study aimed to evaluate the pain scale, demographic-laboratory data, electrocardiographic and echocardiographic findings in order to better define pain in children who were admitted to the pediatric cardiology outpatient clinic with chest pain, based on the hypothesis that there is a correlation between chest pain with cardiac origin and pain severity. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This study was carried out with 131 patients in the pediatric cardiology outpatient clinic of the tertiary pediatric hospital. The Wong-Baker Faces Pain Scale was used to inquire about chest pain. RESULTS: 80 girls and 51 boys were included in the study. The mean age of the cases was 13.4±2.9 years. Echocardiographic findings: 87.8% were normal, 12.2% had pathological findings. The most common cardiac pathology was mitral valve regurgitation (4.6%). According to the Wong-Baker Faces pain scale, patients mostly showed 4 points (29%) and 6 points (47.3%) mimics. CONCLUSIONS: Echocardiography has limited diagnostic power in children with chest pain. This study failed to detect any significant relationship between pain scale and cardiac pathology. The evaluation with the Wong-Baker Faces Pain Scale was assessed to be insufficient.
Keywords : Göğüs ağrısı, Kalp, Ekokardiyografi