The pain of children with sickle cell disease: the nursing approach.

This study showed that the nurses can identify pain in children with SCD from the signals they emit, such as: constant crying, restlessness, facial expressions and verbal reports. Pain is difficult to evaluate due to the lack of instruments, such as a pain scale. For pain control they use emotional support, promotion of comfort and the administration of drugs prescribed by the doctor. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: The nurses recognize the pain of the child and use pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods to control it but have difficulties to assess it. PMID: 29972538 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29972538?dopt=Abstract

Source: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem - July 6, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Campelo LMN, Oliveira NF, Magalhães JM, Julião AMS, Amorim FCM, Coelho MCVS Tags: Rev Bras Enferm Source Type: research