Acute Pain Management (Children)


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Acute Pain Management (Children)

Myra Martz Huth, PhD, MSN, RN
Assistant Vice President, Center for Professional Excellence
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Shirley M. Moore PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor and
Associate Dean of Research
Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing,
Cleveland

The theory Acute Pain Management in Infants and Children, is to assist nurses in managing clinical pain and to expand the knowledge and research base in children's pain. The practice implications are to provide clinicians with prescriptions for pain reduction and a conceptual basis for pain interventions.

Website:

Shirley M. Moore - Faculty profile, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
Medications and imaginations help reduce post-operative pain in children - A new study by a nurse researcher shows that imagery – a simple method of distraction – can be used with pain medications to significantly reduce post-operative pain in children.
Escape Artists - Nurses help pediatric patients relieve their pain, anxiety through guided imagery.
"Imagery Reduces Children's Postoperatvie Pain" (Myra Huth, RN, PhD) - Nursing Grand Rounds. The Educational Streaming Media Program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center provides Nursing Grand Rounds via streaming media. Originally aired on April 13, 2004. You will need Windows Media Player Version 9 to view this lecture.

Selected Publications:

Huth, MM, Broome, ME, Mussatto, KA, & Morgan, SW. (2003). A study of the effectiveness of a pain management education booklet for parents of children having cardiac surgery. Pain Management Nursing, 4(1), pp. 31-39.
1999 Huth, M.M., & O‚Brien, M.E. Chronic conditions: Symptom management. In M.E. Broome & J.A. Rollins (Eds). Core Curriculum for the nursing care of children and their families, 289-304. Pitman, NJ: Janetti Publications, Inc.
Huth MM. Children's responses to immunizations: lullabies as distraction. J Child Fam Nurs. 1999 Nov-Dec;2(6):432-3.
Huth MM, Broome ME, Good M. Imagery reduces children’s post-operative pain. Pain. 2004;110:439-448.
Huth, M. M., Broome, M. E., & Good, M. (2004). Imagery reduces children's postoperative pain. Pain, 110(1-2), 439-448.

Last Edited: Saturday February 26, 2005