Management Strategies for Ensuring Adequate Analgesia in Children
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Pain is a complex phenomenon. Ensuring adequate analgesia in children presents a challenge for paediatric healthcare providers. Multiple factors, including cognitive, emotional, environmental, cultural and behavioural, influence the child's pain perception. Anxiety and fear compound the intensity of the pain experience. Successful pain management requires meticulous age-appropriate assessments and timely interventions. Combining a variety of treatment modalities, both pharmacological and nonpharmacological, can enhance the effective management of pain in children. A multidisciplinary approach to pain problems integrates the contributions of all healthcare providers, optimising pain management.Download Info
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Article provided by Wolters Kluwer Health | Adis in its journal Disease Management & Health Outcomes.
Volume (Year): 6 (1999)
Issue (Month): 1 ()
Pages: 37-47
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