BOOKS

A Child in Pain: How to Help, What to do. Kuttner, L. (1996). Vancouver: Hartley & Marks, Publishers, Inc. This new book was written for parents, but is also relevant for health care providers of children in pain. The book provides an overview of children's perceptions of pain and general apsects of pain for different developmental stages. The second section discusses assessment and measurement of pain in children along with pharmacological and nonpharmacological approaches to the management of pain. A final section, designed for parents, includes common everyday childhood experiences with pain and fears about pain. Guidelines for each age group are presented.

Pain Management: Nursing Perspective. Watt-Watson, J.H. & Donovan, M.I. (1992). St. Louis: C.V. Mosby. A book covering a broad spectrum of pain issues across the life-span. The book includes research, literature, and practical state-of-the-art approaches on pain assessment and management. Includes chapters on misbeliefs about pain, theoretical foundations of pain, pharmacological and nonpharmacological approaches, and ethical issues in pain management. Part II of the book examines developmental differences in pain management and includes chapters on pain in infants, clinical judgment in assessing children's pain, clinical judgment in managing the crisis of children's pain and pharmacological management of children's pain.

INTERNET SOURCES

Pediatric Pain Listserv
This listserv is an international Internet forum for informal discussion of any topic related to pain in children. The listserv is open to professionals and interested persons of the public. Topics discussed include: clincial problems and questions, research issues, announcement of pain-related meetings, book reviews, practical aspects of children's pain assessment, measurement, and management. The listserv is owned and managed by G. Allen Finley, MD, FRCPC, and Patrick J. McGrath, PhD, IWK--Grace Health Centre and Dalhousie University, Halifax NS B3J 3G9 CANADA. To subscribe to the list, send an e-mail message to: MAILSERV@ac.dal.ca. The first line of the message should read: subscribe PEDIATRIC-PAIN.

TRAINING PROGRAMS

To Tame the Hurt. Broome, M.E. (1993). This package includes one VHS videotape, three audiotapes, and three booklets. The videotape is 7 minutes in length. On the tape a mime presents instructions geared toward children, teaching them how to use imagrey and breathing to promote relaxation. Strategies are demonstrated following a discussion of pain. Three separate audiotapes are designed for preschoolers, school-age children, and adolescents. Side one of each tape includes age-appropriate instructions of how to tense and relax muscle groups and how to make the environment relaxing. The second side is music. Booklet 1: Pediatric Pain Management for Parents: Teaching your Child Relaxation, Distraction, and Imagery is writen for parents and intended to be used with the tapes. It is for parents wishing to assist their children with pain management techniques. Booklet 2: To Tame the Hurt: A Relaxation Program for Children is intended for professionals and contains questions and answers to the most commonly posed questions about the techniques, who to use them with and how to use them, how to teach them and involve parents, and how to evaluate their effectiveness. Booklet 3: Kids Learning to Relax Using Distraction and Imagery is intended to be used by children with the tapes. It is for children desiring to learn to use relaxation and simple imagery techniques. This package can be obtained by E-mailing Dr. Marion Broome at Broomem@son.uab.edu.

VIDEOTAPES

Pain in Infants and Children A video series of two tapes each approximately 30 minutes in length and individual pamphlets. These tapes are sold separately.

Tape 1: Stevens, B. Pain in Infants: Confronting the Challenges. The tap focuses on consequences of pain in infants, difficulties in assessment with this age group, strategies for effective pain management, and the role of health care providers in managing pain for our youngest patients.

Tape 2: Broome, M. (1994) Pain in Children: Taming the Hurt. The tape focuses on developmentally appropriate methods to elicit children's self-ratings of pain, physiologic and behavioral manifestations of pain, pharmacologic options, cognitive-behavioral pain management strategies, and involving parents in the pain management regimen.

To order these tapes, call Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins at 1-800-638-3030. You will need the "ISB" number for each of these tapes to order them. Tape 1 ISB number: 0683161342 Tape 2 ISB number: 0683161350