Implementation of a standardized pain management in a pediatric surgery unit

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 879-889

  Messerer, B ^a   Gutmann, A ^a   Weinberg, A ^a   Sandner Kiesling, A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acetaminophen; Analgesia; Dipyrone; Faces pain scale; NSAIDs; Pain; Pain, assessment; Pain, children; Pain, management; Pain, postoperative; Patient controlled analgesia, children; Piritramide; Regional analgesia, children

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1 INHIBITOR; DEXAMETHASONE; DICLOFENAC; DIPYRONE; FENTANYL; IBUPROFEN; MORPHINE; NALBUPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ONDANSETRON; OPIATE; ORPHENANDRIN; PARACETAMOL; PIRITRAMIDE; TRAMADOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; GLUCOSE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENT;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ASTHMA; COLIC; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECZEMA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVIEW; RHINOCONJUNCTIVITIS; SKIN MANIFESTATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VISCERAL PAIN; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DOCUMENTATION; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; METHODOLOGY; PARENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY;

ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANTIEMETICS; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DOCUMENTATION; GLUCOSE; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PARENTS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS;

EID: 79952012388     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: 14379813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-010-2642-1     Document Type: Review

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