Resouces Tagged "chronic pain"
Assessment and Management of Children with Chronic Pain: A Position Statement from the American Pain Society
Position statement on pediatric chronic pain: significance, conceptualization, assessment, treatment, professional education, research, policy. PDF, 4 pages with references
Chronic Pain
This educational handout serves as a common starting place for establishing a shared understanding of chronic pain definition and treatment approaches. This handout is directed at parents to help them understand their child’s pain and how chronic pain will improve with proper management.
Why Children’s Pain Matters
Finley GA, Franck LS, Grunau RE, von Baeyer CL. Why children’s pain matters. International Association for the Study of Pain. Pain: Clinical Updates, 2005;XIII(4):1-6.
aboutkidshealth pain resource centre
This is the home page of a site hosted and maintained by the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children. There are easy to follow links for information on acute pain, chronic pain, assessment of pain at home, and management of pain at home for parents and teens.
aboutkidshealth chronic pain
Information for teens and families on chronic pain
Low Dose Ketamine Infusion and Oral Ketamine for Intractable Pain
Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital policy for the use of low dose ketamine for intractable pain. Ketamine is usually used for the induction and maintenance of general anesthesia. However, this medication has unique effects which may also be useful in the management of acute and chronic pain and for those patients who are opioid-tolerant.