Postoperative pain in pediatric patients remains inadequately managed, contributing to morbidity and potential mortality.
May prompt reevaluation of pediatric perioperative analgesia; leaves open optimal strategies for prospective trials.
Recently the issue of chronic pain in children was elicited.[1] It seems that pain ethics and pain management does not come only to the strong adult populations but include all the spectrum of age. [2,3,4]. Pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or Potential tissue damage It is now accepted that pain should be anticipated, safely and effectively controlled, in all children, whatever their age, maturity or severity of illness .Unfortunately the postoperative pain in pediatric patient is not adequately managed despite of it's cause of morbidity and even some reported mortality [5]
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