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Pain Management

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Behavioral Aspects of Pediatric Burns

Part of the book series: Issues in Clinical Child Psychology ((ICCP))

Abstract

Adequate management of children’s pain during the treatment of severe burns remains an important but too rarely achieved goal despite significant recent conceptual and technical innovations. Many of the greatest barriers to further improvements are associated with the extremely intensive and lengthy nature of treatment procedures, marked negative emotional responses in patients, the dearth of developmentally specific research on behavioral and pharmacological pain management techniques in this population, staff problems associated with working in hospital burn units and inflicting pain on children during treatments, and the technical and attitudinal complications of administering sufficient narcotic analgesic drugs to children.

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  1. Graduate School of Clinical Psychology, Fielding Institute, Santa Barbara, California, 93105, USA

    Joseph P. Bush

  2. Otter Creek Associates, Burlington, Vermont, 05401, USA

    Marlene T. Maron

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Bush, J.P., Maron, M.T. (1994). Pain Management. In: Tarnowski, K.J. (eds) Behavioral Aspects of Pediatric Burns. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9389-5_6

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