The Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine (SPPM) aims to advance the quality of anesthesia care and the alleviation of pain-related conditions in children.
The Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Improvement Network (SPAIN) group has published their latest study looking at regional anesthesia for ACL reconstruction in adolescents. The study found substantial variability in the use of blocks to manage pain in children, with a small percentage experiencing long-term pain and neurological symptoms.
Follow the link to read the fully study and findings: https://rapm.bmj.com/content/early/2024/04/18/rapm-2024-105381
A team from UPMC Children’s Hospital, Pittsburgh has published their experience with the use of regional anesthesia to treat pain related to embolization and sclerotherapy of vascular malformations in pediatric patients.
Their positive findings are found here in the full paper: https://doi.org/10.3390/children11030368
A summer camp is now open for applications that may be of interest to your patients living with chronic pain. This five-day summer camp will take place from June 23 to June 27, 2024, at Morgan’s Camp in San Antonio, Texas. The camp is designed for pediatric pain warriors and their families to come together, connect, and share experiences.
Share this link if you know a patient who may benefit! https://morganscamp.org/
A new randomized control trial published in Pediatric Anesthesia was designed to investigate the benefit of intravenous dexamethasone for enhancing the effect of pudendal block on postoperative analgesia in children who underwent hypospadias surgery.
Follow the link for full results! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pan.14805
Dr. Tonya Palermo has shared a website on the Core Outcomes in Pediatric Persistent Pain that summarizes her team’s recently completed work funded by the Mayday Foundation to update a core outcome set in pediatric persistent pain and to recommend measures for the outcome domains.
This is of importance to members who conduct research in pediatric chronic pain. Visit the working group’s website for more info: https://sites.google.com/view/core-oppp
SPPM 13th Annual Meeting
March 12, 2026
Sheraton Denver Downtown
Denver, CO