Assessment and treatment of pain in children

Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2008 Apr;69(4):211-3. doi: 10.12968/hmed.2008.69.4.28975.

Abstract

Treating acute pain in the paediatric population poses challenges which include the lack of high levels of evidence and a universal pain measuring tool, contributing to the undertreatment of pain. A multimodal approach of topical and systemic analgesia, comfort measures and parental involvement remains the mainstay of pain management.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Analgesics / administration & dosage*
  • Anesthetics, Local / administration & dosage*
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Pain / diagnosis*
  • Pain / drug therapy*
  • Pain Measurement / methods*
  • Pain Measurement / standards
  • Pain, Postoperative / diagnosis
  • Pain, Postoperative / drug therapy

Substances

  • Analgesics
  • Anesthetics, Local