Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine
Better Care for Children in Pain

Dear SPPM Members:

We are delighted as a Society to have so many eager, qualified, and enthusiastic members who want to be involved with and contribute to the Society. All of our candidates for office were imminently qualified and deserving of the positions they were running for. It is with great pleasure that we announce the winners of the Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine’s Election:

Secretary-Treasurer: Vidya Chidambaran, MD, MS, FASA

Board of Directors: Elisha Peterson, MD, FAAP; Genevieve D’Souza, MD;  Jamie Kitzman, MD, FASA, DABMA

Please also welcome and congratulate our incoming President:  Yuan-Chi Lin, MD, MPH

Congratulations to all!

Sincerely,

Rita Agarwal MD, FAAP, FASA (she, her, hers)
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology
Stanford University, School of Medicine
Past President Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine

Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP) and the Health Standards Organization (HSO) have recently released Canada’s first national Pediatric Pain Management standard, establishing a set of guidelines for the delivery of pain management for children from birth to 19 years. The standard provides guidance to health care organizations on how to deliver equitable and quality pain management across hospital settings! Download the document here: https://store.healthstandards.org/products/pediatric-pain-management-can-hso-13200-2023-e

 

Registration is now open for ISPP 2023!  Please CLICK HERE for more information.

ISPP 2023 is the premier interdisciplinary conference on pain in infants, children, and adolescents. Attendees will build capacity in the pediatric pain community by fostering partnerships and innovation through joint learning of the best international research featuring rigorous science, real-life stories, and knowledge sharing.

 

 

 

 

 

Review abstract here:  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pan.14646

 

 

A newly published network meta-analysis included 69 randomized controlled trials (4636 patients) that compared 10 regional analgesic techniques for the management of perioperative pain in pediatric patients undergoing inguinal hernia repair. Two techniques stood out that had: 1) the longest time to the first rescue analgesic and 2) the least rescue analgesic requirement for pediatric inguinal surgeries.

Follow this link to find out more!
https://journals.lww.com/anesthesia-analgesia/Fulltext/9900/Analgesic_Effects_of_Regional_Analgesic_Techniques.489.aspx