Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine
Better Care for Children in Pain

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

 

 

The results for the January 2024 Poll of the Month are now available.  CLICK HERE for more information!

A new paper in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine has been published, authored by SPPM member Dr. Michelle Carley, sharing her center’s experience with Mepivacaine for spinal anesthesia, as a shorter acting alternative to bupivacaine for ambulatory surgery cases in the pediatric population. 

Read the full study here: https://rapm.bmj.com/content/early/2024/02/02/rapm-2023-105093

A new paper in the Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine reviews the high association of chronic pain in patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and hypermobility spectrum disorders. The paper also discusses the benefit of such patients joining formal interdisciplinary chronic pain programs to help manage chronic pain from a functional rehab approach.

Read more here: https://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC10863620&blobtype=pdf