Patient Recollection of ICU Procedural Pain and Post ICU Burden: The Memory Study.

Objective: To assess patients' recollections of in-ICU procedural pain and its impact on post-ICU burden. Design: Prospective longitudinal study of patients who underwent ICU procedures. Setting: Thirty-four ICUs in France and Belgium. Patients: Two hundred thirty-six patients who had undergone ICU procedures. Intervention: None. Measurements and Main Results: Patients were interviewed 3-16 months after hospitalization about: 1) recall of procedural pain intensity and pain distress (on 0-10 numeric rating scale); 2) current pain; that is, having pain in the past week that was not present before hospitalization; and 3) presence of traumatic stress (Impact of Events Scale). For patients who could rate recalled procedural pain intensity (n = 56) and pain distress (n = 43), both were significantly higher than their median (interquartile range) in ICU procedural pain scores (pain intensity: 5 [4-7] vs 3 [2.5-5], p

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