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Acute Pain Management in Children Deemed 'Abysmal'
Acute Pain Management in Children Deemed 'Abysmal'
P Wendling
20100709
2010 Aug 9
Elsevier Global Medical News
Acute Pain Management in Children Deemed 'Abysmal'
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2010 Aug 9, P Wendling
MINNEAPOLIS (EGMN) - Clinicians consistently undertreat acute pain in hospitalized children, despite parents' expectations that everything possible is being done to relieve their children's suffering.Data show that with the same procedure, adults are getting many more pain doses than children, Dr. Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf said at the Pediatric Hospital Medicine 2010 meeting. "Even among children, a 10-year-old is likely to get better analgesia than a 10-day-old for exactly the same procedure," he...