Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine
Better Care for Children in Pain

 

Glyn Williams (Anaesthetist at Great Ormond Street Hospital) and Konrad Jacobs (clinical psychologist, Oxford) have started a new podcast – “What a Pain” – about chronic pain in children and adolescents. Through informal conversations, they  hope to learn more about this fascinating topic from researchers, clinicians and patients, but also find out a little bit about them, what makes them tick, and why they ended up working in pain. 

You can access it through your normal podcast apps (Spotify, apple, google, etc; search for ‘what a pain’) and here: https://shows.acast.com/what-a-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

Do you have an idea for a Workshop or Problem-Based Learning Discussion (PBLD) that would benefit the Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine membership? If so, please see the requirements and submission information below for the SPPM 11th Annual Meeting.

Click here for more information!

This Round Table, hosted by the SIG: Creating and Maintaining Pediatric Acute Pain Services, is led by a multi-disciplinary panel of experts on neonatal epidurals. Panelists discuss the collaborations needed between pediatric anesthesiologists, surgeons, and neonatologists to establish epidural pathways for NICU patients, challenges and tricks for neuraxial block placement in neonates, and management of neonatal catheters in the NICU.

Click here to access the Round Table video.  You will need your SPPM/SPA member login to access the video.

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