Pain management in infants and children: Difference between revisions

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== Recommended Reading ==
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'''Chapter 39: Pain Management in Infants and Children'''<br />
Pages 265 - 270 (Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine, 7th Edition)
 
== Key Points ==
* Pediatric procedures should be performed with pharmacological and nonpharmacological adjuncts to minimize pain ('''analgesia'''), decrease anxiety ('''anxiolysis'''), and provide '''[[sedation]]'''.
* Fasting status has ''no'' correlation with aspiration. Preprocedural fasting is ''not'' required and only prevents a ''theoretical'' risk of aspiration, though ''no'' evidence supports this risk.
 
 
[[Category:Peds]]

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