Pain and symptom control in terminally ill children

Pain and symptom control in terminally ill children

Galloway KS; Yaster M

Pediatric Clinics Of North America

2000

Child; Palliative Care; Pain Measurement; Adult; Analgesics; Antidepressive Agents; Preschool; infant; Comparative Study; Human; Opioid/therapeutic use; Tricyclic/therapeutic use; HIV Seropositivity/psychology; Anesthetics/therapeutic use; Depression/drug therapy/etiology; Gastrointestinal Diseases/therapy; Histamine H1 Antagonists/therapeutic use; Neoplasms/complications/psychology; Pain/diagnosis/drug therapy/etiology; Terminally Ill/psychology

The management of pain in terminally ill pediatric patients has incalculable benefits to patients, their families, and physicians and nurses. A therapeutic management plan is dependent on a thorough understanding of the causes of pain in these patients, on pain assessment, and on the myriad drugs and drug strategies that are essential in pain treatment. Aggressive symptom control of treatment- related side effects can ensure successful implementation of such a plan.

2000

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