Paediatric anaesthesia
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Paediatric anaesthesia · Jul 2008
Quality improvement: implementation of a pain management policy in a university pediatric hospital.
Until recently, individual doctors and nurses in our pediatric hospital made decisions about the application of pain relief in patients, resulting in a wide variety of practice. The main task of our pain group was to develop hospital-wide practice standards for acute pain management to improve care. One of the key points of the pain policy was the introduction of pain assessment tools (COMFORT and Visual Analogue Scale). ⋯ Implementation of a pain policy in a pediatric hospital is a difficult process. Pain management in the PACU fell just short of the set target performances. In the surgical ward, embedding the importance of pain assessment remains a challenge and a prerequisite for quality of care in pain management.
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Paediatric anaesthesia · Jul 2008
Comment Letter Case ReportsIntra-arterial access in pediatric patients.
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Paediatric anaesthesia · Jul 2008
Letter Case ReportsBrachial plexus block for the child with Kartagener's syndrome.