Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine
Better Care for Children in Pain

SPPM members from Stanford University recently published a retrospective study in The Clinical Journal of Pain, analyzing pediatric regional anesthesia from 2014-2021 and their perioperative outcomes.

Follow this link to the study and their results: https://journals.lww.com/clinicalpain/abstract/9900/perioperative_regional_anesthesia_pain_outcomes_in.135.aspx

 

A recent review published in Pediatric Anesthesia discussed the current evidence supporting the use of regional anesthesia in sickle cell disease patients who are experiencing acute pain crisis. Given the challenges in controlled sickle cell disease pain, this study is worth a look.

Follow link for the paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pan.14801

A new retrospective study published in the Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics has found that patients with preoperative mental health diagnosis, when compared to a control group, had significant differences in opioid consumption and duration of opioid use after surgery.

Follow the link for the study: https://journals.lww.com/pedorthopaedics/abstract/2024/01000/does_a_preoperative_mental_health_diagnosis_affect.11.aspx

The American Medical Association Substance Use and Pain Care Task Force continues to advance evidence-based recommendations for policymakers and physicians to help end the nation’s drug-related overdose and death epidemic. Physicians’ positive actions, however, are limited by an insufficient focus on meaningful policy implementation and enforcement to support affordable, accessible, evidence-based care for patients with a substance use disorder, pain, or access to harm reduction services such as naloxone, syringe services programs and fentanyl test strips.

Report is available here: https://end-overdose-epidemic.org/highlights/ama-reports/2023-report/

A new study in Anesthesiology examines the association between genetic variants and their possible association with postsurgical pain. Provoking study with results that may be a bit surprising.

Read the study here: https://pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/doi/10.1097/ALN.0000000000004677/139139/Association-of-Genetic-Variants-with-Postsurgical