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

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

  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

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.

  A new qualitative study has been published in The Clinical Journal of Pain, reviewing the perspective of adolescents on prescribing of opioids for acute

Engaging patients in outpatient pediatric chronic pain programs can be a challenge. A new paper from a group in New Zealand discusses this issue in

A new study by the Department of Anesthesia at Lurie Children’s hospital has published an interesting case series on the use of ultrasound guided occipital

This Round Table, hosted by the SIG: Creating and Maintaining Pediatric Acute Pain Services, we learn from three experts who will share their clinical experience, research,

U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first test that uses DNA in assessing whether certain individuals may have an elevated risk of developing opioid

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

  A recent review published in Pediatric Anesthesia discussed the current evidence supporting the use of regional anesthesia in sickle cell disease patients who are

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

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

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

Hemidiaphragmatic paralysis is a known  consequence of brachial plexus blockade, with pre-existing respiratory disease sometimes being a contraindication to considering such blocks. This meta-analysis assessed