Links

This page is under revision 31 Aug 2010 CvB

International Association for the Study of Pain ®
Position Statement from the SIG Pain in Childhood (PDF)
Children’s Pain Matters! Priority on Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents
sig-child-position-stmt.pdf  (or see text on SIG Home Page)

International Forum on Pediatric Pain
October 13-16th, 2011
New concepts in complex and recurrent pain
http://pediatric-pain.ca/content/IFPP

ChildKind International
An initiative to improve the quality of pain control for children in healthcare facilities worldwide, through the awarding of a special designation and accreditation to institutions that have implemented specific policies which are known to promote pain reduction.
http://www.childkindinternational.org

Why Children's Pain Matters
Finley GA, Franck LS, Grunau RE, von Baeyer CL. Why children's pain matters. International Association for the Study of Pain. Pain: Clinical Updates, 2005;XIII(4):1-6. PDF from IASP® Pain: Clinical Updates
http://www.iasp-pain.org/AM/TemplateRedirect.cfm?template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=7638

Pain Management Experts Guide
from the Mayday Fund Fellows Program: includes pediatric pain experts in USA & Canada
www.maydayfellows.org/sft215/mayday_pain__society_fellowship_experts_guide1.pdf

Global Year Against Pain in Childhood
2005-06 - resources from around the world.

www.iasp-pain.org/Globalyear/Paininchildhoodresources

www.aboutkidshealth.ca
About Kids Health - Pain. In collaboration with the Pain Team at The Hospital for Sick Children, provides families with information on pain in children.

childpain.org/ppl
Pediatric Pain Letter provides free, open-access, peer-reviewed commentaries on pain in infants, children and adolescents.

www.ppprofile.org.uk
This website describes the development of the Paediatric Pain Profile, a pain assessment tool for children with severe neurological disability. The tool can be downloaded from that site.

www.ippcweb.org
The Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care: interdisciplinary education and quality improvement program intended to enhance family-centered care for children living with life-threatening conditions.

www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/cpap
Children's Pain Assessment Project. "Goals: To disseminate research findings regarding nursing assessment of pain in children; To reach consensus on guidelines for the implementation of standardised paediatric pain assessment in hospital settings..."

www.ampainsoc.org/advocacy/pediatric.htm
Pediatric Chronic Pain: A Position Statement from the American Pain Society - Background, policy, and extensive references concerning multidisciplinary assessment and treatment of chronic pain in children and adolescents.

www.sch.edu.au/departments/pain_research
Pain Research Unit, Sydney Children's Hospital - Tiina Jaaniste, David Champion, and their colleagues in Sydney, Australia.

www.pediatric-pain.ca
Pediatric Pain: Science Helping Children. Pediatric Pain Research Lab located in the IWK Grace Health Centre and the Psychology Department of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

www.painsourcebook.ca
Pediatric Pain Sourcebook of Protocols, Policies and Pamphlets: "A World Wide Web and a looseleaf binder publication designed to provide health care professionals worldwide with easy access to standard pediatric pain management information for clinical use and patient education."

www.med.umich.edu/1libr/yourchild/pain.htm
Pain and Your Child or Teen - from University of Michigan Health System

www.painandhealth.org/maydaypediatricpain.html
Mayday Pain Project

www.rch.org.au/anaes/pain/index.cfm?doc_id=2384#1
Pain Management Clinical Practice Guidelines
from Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
Guidelines for Opioid Infusion; Patient Controlled Analgesia; Epidural Infusion; Ketamine Infusion; Intermittent IV Morphine Bolus; Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting