[Improving pain assessment of infants in paediatric emergency departments].

Not having access to language, the infant is deprived of an essential means of communicating its painful experience. The assessment of their pain in the emergency room is therefore quite complex. A study carried out in the paediatric emergency department of the Centre hospitalier intercommunal de Créteil shows that it is possible to improve this aspect thanks, among other things, to continuous training and the presence of experts in children's pain within the team.

Adaptation and validation of the EVENDOL scale to assess pain in neonates in Portuguese language.

Background: EVENDOL scale (from the French Evaluation Enfant Douleur) is used to evaluate pain in children in any situation covering a wider age group than other pain scales (birth up to seven years). This study aimed to evaluate pain in hospitalized newborns, to adapt and validate the EVENDOL to Brazilian Portuguese.

Study Design: Cross-sectional, cross-cultural adaptation and validation study in a convenience sample from a tertiary hospital, Brazil.

A simple tool to measure procedural restraint intensity in children: validation of the PRIC (Procedural Restraint Intensity in Children) scale.

Purpose: Restraint is often used when administering procedures to children. However, no metrologically scale to measure the restraint intensity had yet been validated. This study validated the metrological criteria of a scale measuring the restraint intensity, Procedural Restraint Intensity in Children (PRIC), used during procedures in children.

Pain Assessment in Children Younger Than 8 Years in Out-of-Hospital Emergency Medicine: Reliability and Validity of EVENDOL Score.

Objective: Pain in children is underestimated and undertreated in out-of-hospital emergency medicine. In this setting, caregivers need a reliable pain scale, but none has been validated. A single observational pain scale for all children younger than 8 years, EVENDOL, has been validated in emergency pediatric units.

National cross-sectional study of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs use highlights differences between parents and professionals and prompts safety concerns.

Aim: Controversy surrounding the safety of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) provides an opportunity to study parents' and healthcare professionals' differential use of over-the-counter drugs.

Methods: In this national cross-sectional study, general practitioners, paediatricians and pharmacists were asked to include up to five consecutive febrile paediatric patients aged 1 month to 12 years. Parents and healthcare professionals completed questionnaires about the current fever episode.

Enduring large use of acetaminophen suppositories for fever management in children: a national survey of French parents and healthcare professionals' practices.

Unlabelled: The pharmacological specificities of the rectal formulation of acetaminophen led to a debate on its appropriateness for managing fever in children, but few data are available on the formulation's current use and determinants of use. In a national cross-sectional study between 2007 and 2008, healthcare professionals were asked to include five consecutive patients with acute fever. Among the 6255 children (mean age 4.

Symptomatic Management of Fever in Children: A National Survey of Healthcare Professionals' Practices in France.

Despite the production and dissemination of recommendations related to managing fever in children, this symptom saturates the practices of primary healthcare professionals (HPs). Data on parent practices related to fever are available, but data on HPs' practices are limited. We studied HPs' practices, determinants of practices and concordance with recommendations in France.

Managing fever in children: a national survey of parents' knowledge and practices in France.

Introduction: Identifying targets to improve parental practices for managing fever in children is the first step to reducing the overloaded healthcare system related to this common symptom. We aimed to study parents' knowledge and practices and their determinants in managing fever symptoms in children in France as compared with current recommendations.

Methods: We conducted an observational national study between 2007 and 2008 of French general practitioners, primary care pediatricians and pharmacists.

EVENDOL, a new behavioral pain scale for children ages 0 to 7 years in the emergency department: design and validation.

Numerous behavioral pain measures have been validated for young children, but none is appropriate to assess pain in emergency departments (EDs), where caregivers need a simple, easily completed scale. Our objective was to elaborate and validate a tool, relevant in any painful situation, with agitation or prostration, and for any age under 7 years. Five items (scored 0 to 3) were developed by pediatric pain and emergency caregivers.