A topical spray reduced pain by 34 percent in children undergoing intravenous procedures, such as injections and tube insertions, compared with a placebo group. The findings from this double-blind, ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — The transition from extensive use of intravenous (IV) sedation for interventional pain procedures to almost exclusive use of oral anxiolysis at an outpatient pain center led to ...

The late outcomes, reported by Dr Matthew Henn (Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO) and colleagues, are retrospective and based on procedures performed at a single center but are ...

Music can help distract children who are about to undergo painful procedures in a hospital emergency room setting, a new Canadian study suggests. The work found that children experienced less distress ...