tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Managing childhood fever and pain – the comfort loop"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Managing childhood fever and pain – the comfort loop. | Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health BioMed Central Open Access Managing childhood fever and pain - the comfort loop Jacqui Clinch 1 and Stephen Dale2 Address Consultant paediatric rheumatologist and chronic pain specialist Pain Management Unit Southmead Hospital Bristol UK and 2Analgesics Reckitt-Benckiser Nottingham UK Email Jacqui Clinch - painperception@ Stephen Dale - painperception@ Corresponding author Published 2 August 2007 Received 3 April 2007 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2007 1 7 doi 1753-2000-1-7 Accepted 2 August 2007 This article is available from http content 1 1 7 2007 Clinch and Dale licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ Parents can transmit their anxiety to their child and just as children can pick up on parental anxiety they can also respond to a parent s ability to stay calm in stressful situations. Therefore when treating children it is important to address parental anxiety and to improve their understanding of their child s ailment. Parental understanding and management of both pain and fever - common occurrences in childhood - is of utmost importance not just in terms of children s health and welfare but also in terms of reducing the economic burden of unnecessary visits to paediatric emergency departments. Allaying parental anxiety reduces the child s anxiety and creates a positive feedback loop which ultimately affects both the child and parent. In this review the integral role of parental perception of the child s condition and the efficacy of treatment in the management of childhood fever and pain will be discussed. .