Pediatric emergency care
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Pediatric emergency care · Apr 2007
Parental administration of analgesic medication in children after a limb injury.
To document parental administration of analgesic medication to children with pain from acute limb injury before coming to the emergency department (ED). ⋯ Prehospital analgesic administration by parents is mainly nonpharmacological largely because of parental concern of interference with medical assessment or underestimating the child's pain. Parental concern of masking symptoms and parental perception of no pain in a child were significant factors in determining parental comfort level in using pharmacological analgesics.