Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine
Better Care for Children in Pain.

American Academy of Pediatrics offers a number of resources to support clinicians in addressing substance use. Follow the link for professional tools and resources which

The Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine supports our parent organization, Society for Pediatric Anesthesia in recognizing that gender-affirming care is life-saving and medically necessary.  The

Our Immediate Past-President, Dr. Rita Agarwal, will be a panelist on a new AMA webinar, “The nation’s drug overdose epidemic: Helping children and families, patients

  PedPalASCNET maintains a collection of articles related to pediatric palliative care. Follow this link for the latest citation list: https://pediatricpalliative.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9c9dab53829381faef9b9cb31&id=ddb82016fb&e=ec058daff1  

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

  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

  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

        The AAP will host a Project ECHO learning collaborative on addiction treatment in pediatric settings. The goal of this ECHO is

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

There is an urgent need for more research to establish best practices in the pain management field, however, there is a limited workforce pipeline of

Dear Colleagues, A draft Pediatric Pain Management Standard has been developed by the Health Standards Organization (HSO) and Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP) in consultation with: patients and family members, clinicians

Management of acute pain following the NUSS procedure continues to be investigated in order to achieve optimal analgesia and short length of stay in hospital.

Rosalie Tassone, MD MPH, a member of the SPPM Executive Board has recently published an article in International Anesthesiology Clinics. Of interest to our membership,

Dear Pain Research Community, There is an urgent need for more research to establish best practices in the pain management field, however, there is a

  Long-term chronic postsurgical pain is common in pediatric patients, occurs across a wide range of surgeries and has a marked impact on children’s quality