International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology
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Int. J. Pediatr. Otorhinolaryngol. · Feb 2014
Clinical utility of PPPM and FPS-R to quantify post-tonsillectomy pain in children.
As pain is a subjective and difficult parameter to assess in children, we aimed to evaluate the correspondence of two pain scales - parents' post-operative pain measure (PPPM) and faces pain scale-revised (FPS-R) with analgesic intake in the assessment of post-tonsillectomy pain in a pediatric population. ⋯ Our data demonstrate that PPPM and FPS-R are equivalent pain scales to quantify post-tonsillectomy pain in children and are useful tools in post-tonsillectomy clinical research.
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Int. J. Pediatr. Otorhinolaryngol. · Feb 2014
Establishing auditory steady-state response thresholds to narrow band CE-chirps(®) in full-term neonates.
Narrow band CE-chirps(®) were developed to provide a better synchronization of neural response due to the compensation of the traveling wave delay in the basilar membrane. These stimuli combined with a detection method that includes higher response harmonics on the auditory steady-state response (ASSR) recording was studied in this research. ⋯ In this study ASSR thresholds estimated from 90% of the neonates were 34.5, 28, 12.5 and 15dB nHL. It required 21.2 (±5)min on average to obtain threshold in each ear and ASSR thresholds to narrow band CE-chirp(®) in neonates are not significant for adults ASSR thresholds, except at 500Hz, when the ASSR thresholds in neonates tend to be greater than in adults.