Main description:

A panel of prominent clinician-scientists comprehensively reviews the latest developments in pediatric pain management, with special emphasis on the setting in which pain is detected and managed. The authors explore the cutting-edge of children's pain care in inpatient, outpatient, palliative care, school, and residential settings, and describe alternate approaches, including complementary and alternative medicine, pain management via the internet and information technology, and pain care in developing countries.

Contents:

Hospital-Based Pain Care for Infants and Children
Brenda C. McClain

Treatment of Acute and Chronic Pain in the Outpatient Setting
Neil L. Schechter

Pain and Pain Relief in Pediatric End-of-Life Care
John J. Collins and Gerri Frager

Residential Treatment Settings for Adolescent Chronic Pain Management: Rationale, Development, and Evidence
Christopher Eccleston, Hannah Connell, and Nicola Carmichael

Managing Pediatric Pain at School
Ronald T. Brown

Efficacy of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Approaches for Pediatric Pain: State of the Science
Jennie C. I. Tsao, Marcia Meldrum, and Lonnie K. Zeltzer

Technology in Pediatric Pain Management
Patrick J. McGrath, Carolyn Watters, and Erin Moon

Developing Pain Services Around the World
G. Allen Finley and Paula A. Forgeron

Knowledge Translation and Pain Management
Shannon Scott-Findlay and Carole A. Estabrooks

Index