Managing Pain in Children is an evidence-based, practical guide to care in all areas of children’s pain management, providing nurses and other health care practitioners with the skills and expertise necessary to manage children’s pain effectively.

Managing Pain in Children features:

• Practical and accessible, with ‘best practice’ points in each chapter
• Written in the context of latest policy developments
• Provides the necessary evidence-base for care throughout
• With contributions from experts in the field

Contents

1. Why Managing Pain in Children Matters
2. Anatomy and Physiology of Pain
3. Pain: A Bio-Psycho-Social Phenomenon
4. Pharmacology of Analgesic Drugs
5. Non-Drug Methods of Pain Relief
6. Pain Assessment
7. Managing Acute Pain in Children
8. Chronic Pain in Children
9. Palliative Care in Children
10. Management of Painful Procedures
11. Where To From Here?

Index

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