Postoperative accurate pain assessment of children and artificial intelligence: A medical hypothesis and planned study

Table 1 Postoperative Pain scales and therapeutic threshold according to age

Clinical context	Age		Pain scale	Therapeutic threshold
Postoperative pain	Preterm and term newborns	0 to 5 yr	Children and infants postoperative pain scale	4/10
		0 to 7 yr	EVENDOL	4/15
	Infants to children < 6 yr	0 to 5 yr	Children and infants postoperative pain scale	4/10
		1 to 7 mo	Amiel tison scale	5/20
		0 to 7 yr	EVENDOL	4/15
		2 mo to 7 yr	FLACC	3/10
		1 to 6 yr	Child facial coding system	1/4
		1 to 7 yr	Behavioral observational pain scale	2/6
		1 to 5 yr	Toddler preschooler postoperative pain scale	Not communicated
		1 to 4 yr	Pain observation scale for young children	3/7
		8 mo to 13 yr	Objective pain scale	3/10
		2 to 12 yr	Postoperative pain measure for parents	6/15
	Children > 6 yr		VAS	3/10
			NRS	3/10
			VRS	Moderate
			Faces pain scale revised	4/10

EVENDOL: Evaluation enfant douleur; FLACC: Faces, legs, activity, cry, and consolability; VAS: Visual analogue score; NRS: Numerical rating scale; VRS: Verbal rating scales.