The effectiveness and safety of paediatric prehospital pain management: a systematic review.

Background: Clinically meaningful pain reduction with respect to severity and the adverse events of drugs used in prehospital pain management for children are areas that have not received sufficient attention. The present systematic review therefore aims to perform a comprehensive search of databases to examine the preferable drugs for prehospital pain relief in paediatric patients with acute pain, irrespective of aetiology.

Methods: The systematic review includes studies from 2000 and up to 2020 that focus on children's prehospital pain management.

Investigating the use of physical restraint of children in emergency departments: A Scandinavian survey.

Aim: The aim of the study is to describe the current frequency of physical restraint and the use of analgesics and sedatives for treating pediatric pain in emergency departments (EDs) in Scandinavia.

Methods: We performed a nation-wide electronic survey asking nurses in the emergency departments in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden about their experience treating children in pain.

Results: Responses from 103 Danish, Norwegian and Swedish nurses were included (79% response rate).

Promoting Sleep in the Intensive Care Unit.

Introduction: Intensive care nurses face several challenges to facilitating sleep in their critically ill patients. With its high noise levels, hectic around-the-clock activity and constant artificial lights, the intensive care environment does not foster sleep. Intensive care unit patients have significant alterations in their sleep architecture with frequent awakenings and lighter sleep; up to 50% of this sleep also occurs during the daytime.

Post-thoracotomy pain syndrome and sensory disturbances following thoracotomy at 6- and 12-month follow-ups.

Background: Persistent pain affects a large proportion of patients after thoracotomy and is associated with sensory disturbances. The objective of this prospective study was to investigate the time course of pain and sensory disturbances over a 12-month period.

Methods: Patients scheduled for thoracotomy were recruited.