RT Book, Section
A1 Auerbach, Peter S.
A2 Tintinalli, Judith E.
A2 Stapczynski, J. Stephan
A2 Ma, O. John
A2 Cline, David M.
A2 Cydulka, Rita K.
A2 Meckler, Garth D.
A2 , The American College of Emergency Physicians
SR Print(0)
ID 56329842
T1 Pain Management and Procedural Sedation in Infants and Children
T2 Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-174467-6
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56329842
RD 2021/03/05
AB Pain  and  anxiety  are  very  common  experiences  for  patients  of  all  ages  in  the  ED,  and  both  are  frequently  undertreated.  This  is  particularly  true  for  children.  There  are  many  reasons  for  this,  including  the  idea  that  very  young  children  do  not  experience  true  pain  or  will  not  remember,  the  perceived  difficulty  in  measuring  pain  and  anxiety  in  children,  fear  of  masking  the  signs  and  symptoms  of  serious  disease  processes,  concerns  that  addressing  pain  takes  too  much  time  or  effort,  and  lack  of  familiarity  and  comfort  with  medication  dosing  in  children.  These  concerns  should  not  stand  in  the  way  of  providing  adequate  analgesia,  anxiolysis,  and  sedation  for  children,  however,  and  addressing  these  concerns  is  the  primary  goal  of  this  chapter.