Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine
Better Care for Children in Pain

Congrats to SPPM members Drs. Vidya Chidambaran and Sophie Pestieau for their recent publication on error traps in AIS surgery! The paper reviews many critical aspects of scoliosis management including the “ failure to optimize postprocedure recovery using enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) approaches and preoperative optimization”.

Read the article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pan.14735

The ICD-11 Task Force of IASP’s Pain in Childhood SIG invites you to share your opinion on the need for pediatric specifications in the ICD-11 chronic pain diagnoses. The inclusion of an independent category for chronic pain in the 11th version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) has been an important step towards the legitimization and standardization of chronic pain. The goal is to make the ICD-11 diagnoses more applicable to the pediatric population by developing pediatric specifications.

Please submit your initial ideas by 7 August, at this link:  https://qfreeaccountssjc1.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1XmnWzWwOzKtNCS

Congratulations to SPPM’s Advocacy Committee for their recent publication in Anesthesia & Analgesia on the management of substance use disorders in adolescents and adults! Kudos to our Board Members Drs. Jamie Kitzman and Amber Borucki and SPPM Past President Dr. Rita Agarwal.

Follow the link to read the paper:

https://journals.lww.com/anesthesia-analgesia/Fulltext/9900/Substance_Use_Disorders_in_Adolescents_and_Young.608.aspx

 

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