Pediatric Pain Medicine and Palliative Care

Pain Therapy is dedicated to pain clinicians, educators, and researchers with an interest in pain from various medical and psychological specialties and related health-care areas. The Pain 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 arises primarily or secondarily during episodes of organ destruction or malfunction. Pediatric Palliative Care 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.

The Pediatric Pain Medicine and Palliative Care Section accepts all articles and reviews related to Pediatric Pain and Palliative Care.

• 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