Current concepts in management of pain in children in the emergency department

The Lancet

Volumn 387, Issue 10013, 2016, Pages 83-92

  Krauss, Baruch S ^a   Calligaris, Lorenzo ^b   Green, Steven M ^c   Barbi, Egidio ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IRCCS BURLO GAROFOLO   (Italy)

^c LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANALGESIC AGENT; CODEINE; DIAMORPHINE; FENTANYL; IBUPROFEN; LIDOCAINE; METHOXYFLURANE; NALOXONE; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; TETRACAINE; TRAMADOL; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANALGESIA; ANXIETY; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRYING; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEEDING DISORDER; HEADACHE; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; IRRITABILITY; MALINGERING; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; SOMATIZATION; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; TOUCH; ACUTE PAIN; CHILD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; PEDIATRICS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ACUTE PAIN; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANXIETY; CHILD; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PEDIATRICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84956573676     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61686-X     Document Type: Review

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