Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine
Better Care for Children in Pain

An interesting study looking at a sample of pediatric patients without serious comorbidities undergoing  their first elective major musculoskeletal surgery at a specialty pediatric hospital in the northwestern United States and the healthcare costs associated with the development of chronic postsurgical pain.

Link to article here: https://doi.org/10.1111/pan.14402

 

 

Cincinnati Children’s, led by SPPM board member Dr. Vidya Chidambaran, has published a study describing their multimodal protocol for NUSS procedure incorporating erector spinae catheters. ​​LOS was decreased while maintaining adequate analgesia, allowing postoperative opioid tapering and avoiding increased readmissions. Read the study here for more! https://rapm.bmj.com/lookup/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=35086901

 

The CDC  announces the opening of a docket to obtain comment on the proposed clinical practice guideline, CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids—United States, 2022 (the clinical practice guideline).The clinical practice guideline provides evidence-based recommendations for clinicians who provide pain care, including those prescribing opioids, for outpatients age 18 years and older with acute pain (duration less than 1 month), subacute pain (duration of 1–3 months), or chronic pain (duration of 3 months or more), not including sickle cell disease related pain management, cancer pain treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care.

To view the actual draft proposal, please visit here: https://www.regulations.gov/docket/CDC-2022-0024/document and download the “Draft_CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids”

     

 

The AAP will host a Project ECHO learning collaborative on addiction treatment in pediatric settings. The goal of this ECHO is to increase pediatric provider knowledge and capacity to treat substance use disorders in a medical home setting, with a focus on opioid use disorder. For more information, click here. This ECHO will meet on the first and third Thursday of the month from March through June 2022. Register here. 

 

 

NIH’s Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) initiative to speed scientific solutions to the national opioid public health crisis has announced The NIH HEAL Initiative bolsters research across NIH to (1) improve treatment for opioid misuse and addiction and (2) enhance pain management. NIH has a funding announcement for this purpose, Letters of Intent (strongly encouraged) are due Feb 22nd. The application due date is March 23, 2022. Follow this link for more information: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NS-22-037.html