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Acute and Procedure Pain
September 28 to October 1, 2000
The meeting was a focussed, research-based conference, with the following topics and distinguished international faculty:
- The development of mechanisms of acute pain: Maria Fitzgerald, London, UK
- Acute pain in the neonatal intensive care unit: Bonnie Stevens, Toronto,Canada
- Sports injury pain: Bill Stanish, Halifax, Canada
- Non-pharmacological management of procedure pain: Ann Kazak, Philadelphia, USA
- Pharmacological management of procedure pain: Allen Finley, Halifax, Canada
- Simple and systemic management of postoperative pain: Neil Morton, Glasgow, Scotland
- Regional analgesia: Andrew Wolf, Bristol, UK
- Ethics and politics of acute pain: Nuala Kenny, Halifax, Canada
- Towards a pain-free hospital: Steven Weisman, Milwaukee, WI, USA
The following book, based on the above material, is now available from the IASP Press.
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Acute and Procedure Pain in Infants and Children
Progress in Pain Research and Management, Vol. 20
Editors: G. Allen Finley and Patrick J. McGrath
2001, 183 pp, hardbound, ISBN 0-931092-39-6
Acute pain is important not only in terms of the suffering it causes children, but also because it is almost invariably the first step in the development of chronic pain. The management of acute pain often determines children’s later attitudes toward health care in general. How an institution manages acute pain is a marker for how it manages all forms of distress in suffering children.
Fifteen years ago, undermedication of postoperative pain in children was widespread in comparison to the treatment offered adults. Current systemic and regional analgesic techniques allow more aggressive treatment of acute pain, and the management of pediatric procedure pain has seen an upsurge in interest.
However, many challenges remain — the impact of powerful analgesics on physical development, the management of pain in the cognitively impaired, the high prevalence of pain in sports injuries, ethics in pain management, and cultural and institutional constraints on transforming into clinical practice the knowledge gained from research.
This volume documents the past twenty years’ progress in the aggressive management of acute pain in children. Leading clinicians and scientists discuss mapping the complex cascade of events occurring in response to pain in both the central and peripheral nervous systems and the many ways to manage acutepediatric pain.
Acute and Procedure Pain in Infants and Children represents the first attempt to address this topic from the perspective of basic science, clinical practice, and ethical responsibility. The editors have assembled an impressive array of internationally renowned clinicians and scientists whose contributions in this book will set the standard for future exploration of these topics
Table of contents and ordering information
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Other Forums
2002 - The Context of Pediatric Pain:
Biology, Family, Society, Culture
1998 - Chronic and Recurrent Pain
1996 - Measurement of Children's Pain
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