Documenting and treating acute pain in children

Anne Price; Jocelyn Ong; Grant Isedale; Candice Mackellar; Fiona McDermid

Documenting and treating acute pain in children

Anne Price, Jocelyn Ong, Grant Isedale, Candice Mackellar, Fiona McDermid

Western Sydney University

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Abstract

Pain management for children in emergency departments is often inconsistent or inadequate due to a lack of appropriate protocols. This article discusses the development of such a protocol in an ED in Sydney, Australia, and how its implementation led to a huge improvement in documentation of pain scores and in the appropriateness of pain relief given.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	18-20
Number of pages	4
Journal	Emergency Nurse
Volume	19
Issue number	3
Publication status	Published - 2011

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pain in children
treatment

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