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  • Title: Assessment and management of pain in the critically ill pediatric patient.
    Author: Oakes LL.
    Journal: Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am; 2001 Jun; 13(2):281-95. PubMed ID: 11866409.
    Abstract:
    Alhough considerable progress has been made in the past decade in the study of pain in children, numerous myths, inadequate assessment, and insufficient knowledge of available treatment continue to contribute to the lack of effective management of children's pain. Clinicians who lack knowledge have misconceptions about pain contribute more to the problem than to the problem's solution. Adequate analgesia is to be provided to even the sickest child the medications, techniques, and approaches reviewed here.
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