Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine
Better Care for Children in Pain

The Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium that care for infants with complex surgical problems participated in this collaborative. Centers were encouraged to adopt evidence-based interventions from the Clinical Practice Recommendations, which included pain assessment tools, pain score documentation, nonpharmacologic treatment measures, pain management guidelines, communication of a pain treatment plan, routine discussion of pain scores during team rounds, and parental involvement in pain management.

Results of this collaborative work can be found here: https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/doi/10.1542/peds.2022-059860/192510/A-Multicenter-Collaborative-to-Improve

A new study published in Pediatric Neonatal Pain examines the prevalence of chronic pain conditions in patients who presented with psychiatric conditions. The paper notes that abdominal pain was more common among girls with a psychiatric diagnosis than in the matched control population. Children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental diagnoses had a higher prevalence of abdominal pain thanchildren and adolescents with other psychiatric diagnoses.  

Read the full paper HERE 

A new systematic review published in Anesthesia & Analgesia by Dr. Sapna Kudchadkar’s group at Johns Hopkin’s Children’s Centre examines the effects of intraoperative methadone for postoperative pain control. Although the studies had methodological issues, it was noted that there was decreased consumption of opioids in the first 24 hours postoperatively compared to patients receiving other shorter-acting opioids or pain management strategies. 

Read the full paper HERE

Are you a health professional who treats kids with chronic pain?  Researchers at The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) would like to understand more about your clinical experiences in a 15-minute survey 

Participate here: https://t.co/071uD1wMw0