Background Preventing pediatric chronic postsurgical pain is a patient, parent/caregiver,
health care professional, and policymaker priority. Poorly managed presurgical and acute …

Background Persistent post-operative pain continues to occur in pediatric patients. Despite
the growing amount of literature on causes, there is little discussion on treatment and …

Chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) results from a cascade of events in the peripheral and
central nervous systems following surgery. Several clinical predictors, including the prior …

Background Children admitted to the hospital experience pain. ChildKind International (CKI)
is an organization dedicated to improving the quality of pediatric pain care worldwide. In …

Background In recent years, children's hospitals have increasingly implemented
postoperative pain management protocols to reduce postoperative pain and improve patient …

Purpose Twenty percent of children may develop chronic post-surgical pain (CPSP), but
studies investigating pediatric CPSP are limited in scope. In an exploratory patient survey …

Children experience moderate to severe pain post-operatively. Nurses have been found to
have a variety of aims in this context. Surgeons' aims when managing post-operative pain …

Background Pediatric postoperative pain is still undertreated. Aims To assess whether
educational intervention increases nurses' knowledge and improves pediatric postoperative …

Outpatient surgery is extremely common in children, and approximately 4 million children
experience significant pain after surgery in the USA each year. Management of children's …

Background Effective pain management involves a cycle of continual pain assessment,
good pain control strategies, and assessment of a standard quality improvement measures …