Pediatric emergency care
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Pediatric emergency care · Feb 2019
Multicenter StudyPain Assessment in Children Younger Than 8 Years in Out-of-Hospital Emergency Medicine: Reliability and Validity of EVENDOL Score.
Pain in children is underestimated and undertreated in out-of-hospital emergency medicine. In this setting, caregivers need a reliable pain scale, but none has been validated. A single observational pain scale for all children younger than 8 years, EVENDOL, has been validated in emergency pediatric units. We study the feasibility of EVENDOL score in an out-of-hospital emergency setting. ⋯ EVENDOL is a quick, easy-to-use, discriminant instrument to assess pain in young children in out-of-hospital emergency settings.