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PEDS
Pediatric Final - Nursing
| acute pain | irritability, grimacing, sleep disturbances, lethargy, abnormal vital signs |
| chronic pain | less symptoms --> usually diagnosed around 3 months |
| CRIIES | Crying, Requiring, Increased oxygen, Increased vital signs, Expression, Sleeplessness |
| OUCHER scale | ages 3-7 |
| FACES scale (Wong Baker) | ages 3+ |
| NCCPC | non-communicative child pain checklist |
| PICIC | pain indicator for communicatively impaired children |
| non-pharmalogical interventions | reposition, sweet-ease, sucking, skin-to-skin, holding, distraction |
| 3+ months with MILD pain | non-opioid NSAID |
| 3+ months with MODERATE/SEVERE pain | morphine |
| PCA pump - basal rate | continuous rate |
| PCA pump - bolus rate | in addition to |
| PCA pump | MORPHINE = gold standard |
| infant hospitalization | UNAWARE of illness - stranger/separation anxiety |
| toddler hospitalization | illness is PUNISHMENT |
| school age hospitalizaiton | knows cause & effect of illness |