The editorial team of Children (ISSN: 2227-9067) is pleased to announce the launch of a new Section, “Pediatric Pain Therapy and Palliative Care”, of which Prof. Dr. Boris Zernikow from Witten/Herdecke University, Germany, has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief.
The “Pediatric Pain Therapy and Palliative Care” Section accepts all articles and reviews related to pediatric pain and palliative care. The Section focuses on acute pain in children like vaccination pain, acute pain in other healthcare settings, and in the trajectory of severe illnesses. Another major field to cover is chronic pain in children, e.g., headache, abdominal pain, and/or musculoskeletal pain, that arise primarily or secondarily during episodes of organ destruction or malfunction. The Section focuses on children, adolescents, and young adults with life‐threatening or life‐limiting conditions and their families in the whole disease trajectory from diagnosis to death. Communication with patients and parents, shared decision-making, advanced care planning, and multimodal and interprofessional treatment are major topics of interest. The four dimensions of palliative care—the biological, psychological, social and spiritual dimension—will be covered.
Keywords: acute non‐postoperative pain; chronic pain; headache; migraine; abdominal pain; tension-type headache; trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias; back pain; muscle pain; facial pain; co‐morbid pain and substance-use disorders; chronic pain and co‐morbidities; CRPS; intensive interdisciplinary pain treatment (IIPT); pain psychotherapy; psychological interventions; pain assessment; pain neurobiology; neonatal pain; resilience; self-efficacy; nociception; epidemiology of pediatric pain; pain medication; NSAIDs; palliative care; hospice care; rare diseases; home care; hospital care; cancer pain; somatic pain; neuropathic pain; swallowing difficulties; seizures; sleep disturbance; loss of appetite; constipation; irritability of unknown origin; dyspnea; anxiety; depression; spasticity; paralysis; cerebral palsy; weight loss; vomiting; nausea; cough; hypersalivation; fatigue; wound care; end-of-life care; severe neurological impairment; suffering; family; organ failure; grief; communication; shared decision making; advanced care planning; death; dying; life‐threatening conditions; life‐limiting conditions; spirituality; quality of life; parents; multimodal treatment; team; inherited metabolic diseases; sibling; morphine; opioid; ethics
We are currently recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) and Guest Editors for this Section. If you are an active researcher in this field and are passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please contact us at children@mdpi.com. Alternatively, you may wish to submit your work directly via the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload?journal=children.
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