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Originally Posted by Noah930
The reason why it is a bit of a manufactured crisis dates back about 15 years ago when "they" (some bureaucrat or committee) decided that pain was Uber important. So "they" decreed pain as "the 5th vital sign." Elevated in importance to the same level as heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, and temperature. Pain became ranked on a scale of 1-10.
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Thank you for the interesting retrospective.
If pain makes you want to die or is so bad that the symptoms of extreme blood pressure lead to other health emergencies including death, then yea, I'd kind of want to call it a 5th vita sign.
But I'm not in the medical profession, just an opinion.
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Originally Posted by Tobra
Now the pendulum is swinging the other way..........
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I agree, and it is a painful course correction.