Clinical information related to the Pain Control Service

Here you can download information on everyday, acute and chronic pain management for children. There are also some links and references to further information which might help you to understand and manage your child's pain.

• Making sure your child gets the best care for pain in hospital

• Helping your baby cope with painful medical procedures

• Helping your child cope with painful medical procedures

• Helping your child cope with everyday pain

• Pain relief after surgery using patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) or nurse-controlled analgesia (NCA)

• Pain relief after surgery using an epidural

• Pain relief after surgery using an epidural - Arabic translation

• Pain management after day surgery

• Helping children with chronic pain

• Helping children with musculo-skeletal chronic pain syndromes

• Topical anaesthetics

• Pain relief using Entonox

• Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation (TENS) in children

• Understanding pain: what to do about it in less than five minutes? (YouTube video)

• The Pain Toolkit for Young People and Teenagers by Peter Moore and Jessica Bird from www.paintoolkit.org

• Butler, D and Moseley, G (2003) Explain Pain (Adelaide: Noigroup Publications).
• Cuthbert, T and Kajander, R (2007) Be the Boss of Your Pain: Self-care for kids (Minneapolis: Free Spirit Publishing).
• Morgan, M (2010) GrrrOUCH! Pain is like a grouchy bear (Ontario: General Store Publishing).