For professionals

Acute Pain Service protocols

The following materials are available on request from the BCCH Pain Service: IPS@phsa.ca

• Children’s Hospital Sedation/Analgesia Guidelines
• APS Physician’s Orders
• pain management-related Nursing Policies & Procedures

Complex Pain Service links

• Bath Centre for Pain Services, Adolescent Pain Management Service, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, NHS Foundation Trust, Bath, England 
• Chronic Pain Management Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto 
• Chronic Pain Service, the Montreal Children’s Hospital, Montreal, QC 
• Complex Pain Service, BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC 
• Multidisciplinary Pain Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB 
• Pain Management Clinic, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH 
• Pediatric Pain Management Program, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS

Practice Guidelines for professionals 

• American Academy of Pediatrics: Assessment and Management of Acute Pain in Infants, Children and Adolescents 
• American Pain Society: Guidelines for the Management of Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Juvenile Chronic Arthritis 
• American Pain Society: Guidelines for Management of Acute and Chronic Pain in Sickle Cell Disease 
• American Society of Anesthesiologists: Practice Guidelines for Sedation and Analgesia by Non-Anesthesiologists 
• Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and Faculty of Pain Medicine: Guidelines on Acute Pain Management 
• British Pain Society Guidelines 
• Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology: Cancer Pain Management 
• College of Physicians & Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO): Evidence Based Recommendations for Medical Management of Chronic Non-Malignant Pain: Reference Guide for Clinicians 
• Committee on Drugs & American Academy of Pediatrics: Guidelines for Monitoring and Management of Pediatric Patients During and After Sedation for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures 
• Registered Nurses of Ontario: Nursing Best Practice Guidelines 
• Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health: Recognition and Assessment of Acute Pain in Children 
• University of Saskatchewan Department of Pediatrics: Guidelines for Practice Tri-Site Acute Pediatric Pain Management 
• University of Saskatchewan Department of Pediatrics: Pediatric Analgesic Drug Dosage Guidelines 
• University of Saskatchewan Department of Pediatrics: P&P: Sucrose for Procedural Pain

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Other useful Internet links for professionals

• American Academy of Pain Medicine 
• American Pain Society 
• British Pain Society 
• Canadian Pain Society 
• International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) 
• National Pain Foundation 
• Pain Relief Foundation 
• Physiotherapy Pain Association

• Boston Medical Centre PainFree Pediatrics Program 
• The Children's Pain Assessment Project 
• Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Pain Management Service 
• Pain.com 
• Pain and Health (the Mayday Pain Project) 
• Pain Concern 
• Pediatric Pain Letter 
• Pediatric Pain Mailing List
• Pediatric Pain Research Lab, IWK
• Pediatric Pain Sourcebook

• Accreditation Canada
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• American Academy of Pain Management
• American Academy of Pain Medicine
• American Alliance of State Pain Initiatives
• American Pain Society
• Canadian Cancer Society
• Canadian Complementary Medical Association
• Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
• Canadian Medical Association
• Canadian Pain Coalition
• Canadian Pain Society
• Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians
• Chronic Pain Association of Canada
• City of Hope
• End of Life/Palliative Education Resource Center
• International Association for the Study of Pain
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
• MD Anderson Cancer Center
• National Cancer Institute
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine 
• National Foundation for the Treatment of Pain 
• National Pain Foundation 
• PainCare.ca
• Pain Resource Centre
• Partners Against Pain 
• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario 
• Special Interest Group on Pain in Childhood 
• University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain 
• World Health Organization 
• World Institute of Pain

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• A child in pain: How to help, what to do. Kuttner, Leora (1996). 
• A child in pain: What health professionals can do to help. Kuttner, Leora (2010).
• Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) explained: For teenagers, by teenagers. Lauder, Gillian R., Massey, Roslyn (2010).
• Pain in children and adults with developmental disabilities. Oberlander, Tim F., Symons, Frank J. (Eds) (2006).

• Pain in neonates and infants, 3rd edition. Anand, K.J.S. et al (Eds), 2007. 
• Bringing pain relief to children. Finley et al (Eds), 2006.