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AAP Grand Rounds 3:60 (2000)
© 2000 American Academy of Pediatrics

Adequacy of Analgesia After Outpatient Surgery

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This study was conducted to determine whether children undergoing outpatient surgery have adequate pain control at home. The authors prospectively collected data on 471 children at the University of Michigan Medical Center, aged 10 months to 18 years (mean 5.4+/– 4.4 years), who underwent outpatient surgical procedures expected to be associated with pain. Information about the surgical procedure, perioperative analgesia and anti-emetic administration, postoperative pain scores, and discharge prescriptions was collected. Parents were called 24 hours after the procedure and questioned about their child’s pain, analgesic and anti-emetic usage, and their ability to care for their child. The most common procedures were hernia/hydrocele repair (17%), excision of lumps/cysts (12%), adenoidectomy/adenotonsillectomy (13%), strabismus . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Thomas Mancuso, MD, FAAP

Anesthesiology, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA