Pain assessment and management are essential components of paediatric care.
Developmentally appropriate pain assessment is an important first step in optimizing pain …

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, multi-system disease that requires comprehensive
care. The sickling of red blood cells leads to hemolysis and vascular occlusion …

Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) commonly experience vaso‐occlusive pain episodes
(VOE) due to sickling of erythrocytes, which often requires care in the emergency …

Abstract Vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC), characterized by periods of excruciating pain is the
most common clinical manifestation of sickle cell disease (SCD), often resulting in …

The article demonstrates that the treatment of acute pain episodes (APE) can be described
using the prisoner's dilemma. It discusses the prisoner's dilemma as a classic example in …

Introduction Sickle-cell disease (SCD) is one of the most common hematologic inherited
disorders in Saudi Arabia. Vaso-occlusive pain crisis in SCD is a major cause for emergency …

Résumé L'évaluation et le traitement de la douleur sont des aspects essentiels des soins
pédiatriques. L'évaluation de la douleur adaptée au développement représente une …

A universal newborn screening program for sickle cell disease (uNS‐SCD) was
implemented in the province of Québec (Qc) in November 2013, close in time to the …

Objectives The primary objective of this study is to describe the experiences of pediatric
patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) and their caregivers who have presented to the …

Objectives: Triage nurse-initiated analgesia (TNIA) has been shown to be associated with
decreased time to the provision of analgesia and improved patient satisfaction. We …