Medscape September 30, 2024
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published its first clinical practical guidelines on opioid prescriptions for children with acute pain, outlining 12 evidence-based recommendations for safely and appropriately treating pain in young patients.
The guidelines have been published alongside a technical report in Pediatrics and presented at the group’s 2024 annual meeting.
While not the only set of guidelines of its kind, ”is the first set that is really for anyone who takes care of children, not just surgeons, anesthesiologists, and pain specialists,” said Rita Agarwal, MD, a pediatric anesthesiologist at Stanford University in Stanford, California, who helped write the recommendations.
The opioid guidelines were created to give clinicians a clearer, more objective framework for safe treatment of acute pain...
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