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Pediatric Pain Management

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The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage (Cunliffe and Roberts, Curr Anaesth Crit Care 15(4–5):272–283, 2004). The application of the word “pain” is a learned response based on experiences related to injury early in life. Professionals caring for children need to be aware that children are a vulnerable group, and give appropriate consideration and treatment to a child reporting pain to avoid long-term consequences. This chapter will address the neurobiology of pain in children, assessment tools for quantifying pain in children, and approaches to pharmacology of treating pain in children.

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  1. Pediatric Anesthesiology, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Jennifer Hickman M.D.

  2. Anesthesia and Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Jaya L. Varadarajan M.D.

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  1. Hospital University Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Basavana G. Goudra

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Michael Duggan

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Vidya Chidambaran

  4. University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Hari Prasad Krovvidi Venkata

  5. Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Elizabeth Duggan

  6. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

    Mark Powell

  7. All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Preet Mohinder Singh

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Hickman, J., Varadarajan, J.L. (2018). Pediatric Pain Management. In: Goudra, B., et al. Anesthesiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74766-8_47

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