Objective:The aim of the study was to investigate the pain relief approaches in emergency trauma units according to the severity of trauma. Method: In this descriptive and cross-sectional study 250 patient files were reviewed. As data collection tool, personel characteristics form, Abbreviated Injury Assessment Scale (AIS), Visual Analog Scale (VAS), Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), Injury Severity Scale (ISS) and Revized Trauma Score (RTS) were used. Descriptive statistics and Spearman correlation analysis were used in the SPSS 15,0 package program. Results: The mean age of the patients was 38.92±15.00 years. 60.4% of them were ≤38 years old. While 64.4% of the group consisted of males and the mean body mass index of study population was 25.66±2.45 kg/m 2 The indicated proportion of the patients were overweight (64%), high school graduates (57.2%) and civil servants/workers (78.4%). The mean scale scores of the patients hospitalized in emergency trauma units were as follows: