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Several studies show that 60\u201370% of ER patients experience pain, and more than half of them express a feeling of sorrow, which can be moderate or severe, at triage. The few studies that have analyzed how pain is assessed and managed in these departments agree that approximately 70% of patients receive no analgesia or receive it with remarkable delay. Specifically, less than half of the patients receive treatment for pain during admission and 60% of discharged patients have higher intensity pain than at admission. Trauma patients are also the ones who most commonly report low satisfaction with pain management. Associated with this lack of satisfaction, we can describe the poor use of tools for measuring and recording pain, poor communication among caregivers, inadequate training in pain assessment and management, and widespread misconceptions among nurses about the reliability of patients\u2019 estimation of pain. The aim of this article is to review the scientific literature to explore the methodologies of pain management in trauma patients attending the emergency room and analyzing their weaknesses as a starting point to improve the approach to this, unfortunately too often, underestimated issue. A literature search was performed using the major databases to identify relevant studies in indexed scientific journals. The literature showed that the multimodal approach in trauma patients is the best approach to pain management. It is becoming increasingly crucial to manage the patient on multiple fronts. Drugs acting on different pathways can be administered together at lower doses, minimizing risks. Every emergency department must have staff trained in the assessment and immediate management of pain symptoms as this allows the reduction of mortality and morbidity and shortens hospital stays, contributing to early mobilization, reduced hospital costs, and enhanced patient satisfaction and quality of life.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/diseases11010045","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,6]],"date-time":"2023-03-06T03:22:05Z","timestamp":1678072925000},"page":"45","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":41,"title":["Acute Traumatic Pain in the Emergency Department"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Christian","family":"Zanza","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Integrated Research and Innovation Activities, Unit of Translational Medicine AON SS, Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo H, 15121 Alessandria, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tatsiana","family":"Romenskaya","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marta","family":"Zuliani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Integrated Research and Innovation Activities, Unit of Translational Medicine AON SS, Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo H, 15121 Alessandria, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fabio","family":"Piccolella","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Integrated Research and Innovation Activities, Unit of Translational Medicine AON SS, Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo H, 15121 Alessandria, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Maria","family":"Bottinelli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Integrated Research and Innovation Activities, Unit of Translational Medicine AON SS, Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo H, 15121 Alessandria, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Giorgia","family":"Caputo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Integrated Research and Innovation Activities, Unit of Translational Medicine AON SS, Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo H, 15121 Alessandria, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9297-5897","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Eduardo","family":"Rocca","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Integrated Research and Innovation Activities, Unit of Translational Medicine AON SS, Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo H, 15121 Alessandria, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Antonio","family":"Maconi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Integrated Research and Innovation Activities, Unit of Translational Medicine AON SS, Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo H, 15121 Alessandria, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8679-5435","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gabriele","family":"Savioli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Emergency Medicine and Surgery, IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico San Matteo, 27100 Pavia, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8831-1361","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yaroslava","family":"Longhitano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"165","DOI":"10.1053\/ajem.2002.32643","article-title":"The high prevalence of pain in emergency medical care","volume":"20","author":"Cordell","year":"2002","journal-title":"Am. 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