Background Children undergoing surgery generally experience anxiety during the
perioperative period, which could impact the surgical outcome, cause long-term …

Purpose Anxiety and pain are experienced by most children undergoing surgical
procedures. Untreated anxiety delays postoperative recovery and also increases the risk of …

Negatively-biased pain memories (ie, recalling more pain as compared to earlier reports)
are a robust predictor of future pain experiences. This randomized controlled trial examined …

Aims To examine the efficacy of an immersive virtual reality distraction compared with an
active non‐immersive distraction, such as video games on a tablet, for pain and anxiety …

Negatively biased memories for pain (ie, recalled pain is higher than initial report) robustly
predict future pain experiences. During early childhood, parent–child reminiscing has been …

In light of growing concerns about opioid analgesics, developing new non-pharmacologic
pain control techniques has become a high priority. Adjunctive virtual reality can help reduce …

2. Method The present article reports results from a larger study examining risk factors for
chronic postsurgical pain in children and youth, which has not yet been published. The …

Background and Purpose: Premedication with either oral midazolam or intranasal
dexmedetomidine prior to surgery remains less than ideal. The aim of this study was to …

Although pain is widely recognized to be a multidimensional experience and defined as
such, unidimensional pain measurement focusing on pain intensity prevails in the pediatric …

Background Many children with injuries, including burns and fractures, experience moderate
to severe pain during medical procedures. Recent studies claim that nonpharmacologic pain …