In paediatric nuclear medicine the majority of the scans require intravenous (IV) access to deliver the radiotracers. Children and parents often cite procedural pain as the most distressing part of their child’s hospitalization. In our department, various pain management strategies including physical and psychological distraction methods and pharmacological intervention have been implemented for the reduction of procedural pain. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare different pain reduction strategies used in the paediatric Nuclear Medicine department. Read More

Meeting name: SPR 2019 Annual Meeting & Postgraduate Course , 2019

Authors: Kohli Mandy, Vali Reza, Amirabadi Afsaneh, Frankfurter Caroline Frankfurter, Shammas Amer

Keywords: Pain management, Paediatric, Distraction method