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Pedia Pain Focus

Sep 29, 2021

Chronic pain is often overlooked, and when it comes to children, it is even more so.  The continued neglect of children's pain affects the ability to truly evaluate the extent of the problem and challenges these kids and their families face.

 

The United States Pain Foundation, a pain advocacy organization, conducted...


Sep 22, 2021

Treatment of pain is challenging to say the least. For one it is difficult to understand the complexity of the pain experience. This episode explains the components of nociception and the pain experience.  It also examines the targets for pain control and thus provides comprehensive framework for choosing the right...


Sep 17, 2021

Pain isn't simply a symptom of another disease or a result of another noxious or traumatic event. It's an independent entity in itself in majority of the situations. It's time we stopped approaching it with the Cartesian model framework.

 

Join me in this episode to learn about how and when a pain can be considered a...


Sep 9, 2021

There's no better way to kick off September as the Pain Awareness Month than bringing you a conversation with Dr. Kanwaljeet S. Anand, whose research took the medical world by storm, even risking his license, as he sought out to answer the question of; what if we give children anesthesia and analgesia? 

I truly...


Sep 1, 2021

When the gold standard for pain assessment is verbal report, children's pain assessment and management requires specific knowledge and understanding.  Children at these important stages of growth create key memories-- and the last thing we need is a whole generation of children that associate getting medical attention...