In late 2018, a handful of pediatric specialists with an interest in the nascent field of enhanced recovery after surgery, more commonly known as ERAS, gathered in Richmond, Virginia. It was the first ...

Pain screening in young patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) has demonstrated benefits for the administration of integrative health and medicine modalities for pain management. Utilizing the ...

According to the guidelines, naloxone should be prescribed with every opioid prescription. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has published its first clinical practice guideline on the use of ...

NSAIDs, ketamine, and mid- to high-potency opioids reduced acute pediatric pain, but effects were modest NSAIDs provided the greatest benefit and the least harm Systematic review and meta-analysis ...

One of the world’s leading experts in pediatric pain management is calling upon clinicians nationwide to join a national challenge to eliminate the pain, trauma and anxiety of needle jabs for young ...

The Pediatric Abdominal Pain Research Program is led by Dr. Robert Shulman, a practicing pediatric gastroenterologist at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. Our team consists of ...

Each year, too many kids in the East Bay suffer needlessly from pain related to long-term serious illness, including migraines, joint and abdominal pain, sickle cell anemia and more. A new UCSF Health ...

As pediatric pain psychologists, we often wish we had a magic wand that could wave away the suffering that children and their families bring into our offices. However, we know that good pain ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Functional abdominal pain disorders cause significant stress in children, driving high care use. New guidelines ...

Joint pain, headaches, stomachaches, fibromyalgia – the list sounds like an inventory of ailments that might plague people as they age. Yet these are chronic, painful conditions that frequently affect ...

Parents should not be afraid of managing the child’s pain with opioids when they are needed, but should make sure a child does not have access to leftover doses. By Perri Klass, M.D. Opioids are very ...