Tridimensional fuzzy pain assessment

A tridimensional fuzzy pain assessment for representing professional, social, and sexual aspects concerned to the fifth vital sign of medical condition is proposed in this paper. According to the 3D fuzzy pain assessment herein, pain is not only caused by activity in nociceptive information in the brain. The proposed approach embodies such sensorial information simultaneously that contextualize it within cultural aspects that permeate the human life. This paper extends both previous unidimensional fuzzy pain intensity scale and the accepted professional-social-sexual pain assessment to fuzzy inference systems. The fuzzy professional-social-sexual pain assessment is able to represent the inherent physiological, psychological characteristics by taking into account the emotional, complex perceptual, subjective, and personal phenomenon involving all domains of an individual meanwhile can deal with cultural mechanisms within individual life experience. According to the proposed approach, not only fuzzy set theory but fuzzy systems can also direct and immediately improve medicine and healthcare in general, and pain assessment, in particular, in a subjective and multi-dimensional model.