Abstrakt

Treating children's acute pain

Aadhya Marvin

The biggest development in paediatric pain management is the understanding that untreated pain following surgical trauma is a significant contributor to morbidity and even fatality. The accurate assessment of pain in various age groups and the efficient management of postoperative pain are constantly being improved; the use of novel medications either by itself or in combination with other medications is still being investigated. In the past 20 years, numerous developments in developmental neurobiology and pharmacology, knowledge of new analgesics, and newer uses of traditional analgesics have made it easier for paediatric anaesthesiologists to effectively treat children's pain. The latter involves mixing opioids with neuro axial local anaesthetics and delivering them through the skin and nasal mucosa.