Tratamiento del dolor en Pediatría Hospitalaria

BUSTO AGUIRREURRETA, Néstor
; CÍA ARMENDÁRIZ, María Luisa
; LEZAÚN BURGUI, Isabel
; MOLINA GARICANO, Javier
; SAGASETA DE ILÚRDOZ, María

Publication year:

2003

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

1577-8533

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Summary

Pain is evidently a disagreeable emotional and sensorial sensation related to real tissue damage. Children were manifestly undervalued due to their impotence in expressing pain at certain ages. We currently attribute more importance to children and we attempt, with all available and increasingly sophisticated means, every time but sophisticated, to avoid all disagreeable sensations at such ages and to make the process more bearable process. Psychological and pharmacological methods, as well as certain valuation tests are of great importance for a better control of such situations. Anti-inflammatory medicines, non-opioid analgesics, opioid analgesics, sedatives, etc., are the therapeutical means at our disposal that allow us to treat such symptoms. Preventive analgesia for children implies a decrease of morbid mortality in the hospital level.