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Managing Pain in Children and Young People

A Clinical Guide

Twycross, Alison / Stinson, Jennifer / Zempsky, William / Jordan, Abbie (Editor)

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3. Edition May 2024
352 Pages, Softcover
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ISBN: 978-1-119-64532-0
John Wiley & Sons

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Master paediatric pain management with precision

This practical guide equips nurses and healthcare professionals with evidence-based skills to effectively manage children's pain. Explore assessment techniques, pain relief strategies, and best practices for both hospital and community settings, with a focus on core knowledge, advanced insights, clinical scenarios, and practical tips.

The fully updated third edition includes an expanded procedural sedation section, enhanced coverage of capnography for respiratory monitoring, a new quality improvement sciences section, and additional online MCQs and self-assessment material.

Written by experienced authors, with contributions from global experts, Managing Pain in Children and Young People covers:
* Why pain prevention and treatment are crucial
* Pain's biopsychosocial nature and pharmacology of analgesic drugs
* Acute nociceptive, neuropathic, and visceral pain management
* Chronic headaches, post-surgical pain, neonatal pain, and procedural pain
* Paediatric palliative care and pain management in low-income countries
* Drug-free pain relief methods and ethical considerations

With a multidisciplinary focus, this essential resource is tailored for healthcare practitioners working with children and young people; including doctors, nurses, psychologists, and physiotherapists. This essential resource empowers you to provide the best possible care for young patients, helping them find comfort and relief in their journey towards healing.

* Introduction
* Why treating and preventing pain matters
* The anatomy and physiology of pain
* Pain: A biopsychosocial phenomenon
* Pharmacology of analgesic drugs
* Pain assessment
* The prevention and treatment of acute nociceptive pain
* The prevention and treatment of neuropathic and visceral pain
* The prevention and treatment of chronic pain: Musculoskeletal
* The prevention and treatment of chronic pain: Headaches
* The prevention and treatment of chronic pain: Chronic post-surgical pain
* The prevention and treatment of procedural pain
* The prevention and treatment of pain in the neonate
* Paediatric palliative care
* The prevention and treatment of pain in low income countries
* Knowledge Implementation and Dissemination - Effectively Moving Forward
Alison Twycross is Former Deputy Dean and Professor of Children's Nursing; Honorary Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Birmingham, UK

Jennifer Stinson is Mary Jo Haddad Nursing Chair in Child Health; Nurse Practitioner, Chronic Pain Program; The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, and Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Canada.

Abbie Jordan is a Reader in the Department of Psychology and member of the Centre for Pain Research at the University of Bath, UK.

William T. Zempsky, MD, MPH is the Francine L. and Robert B. Goldfarb-William T. Zempsky, MD Endowed Chair for Pain and Palliative Medicine, Vice Chair for Academic Affairs and Research at Connecticut Children's Medical Center, as well as Professor of Pediatrics at University of Connecticut School of Medicine, USA.

A. Twycross, Kingston University; J. Stinson, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada