Medecines for the Treatment of Pain in Children Introduction EMEA, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Medecines for the Treatment of Pain in Children Introduction EMEA, London Daniel Brasseur October 2004 Post-operative Pain in Children a moving field where attitudes are changing Eland mid 70s: almost 75% of insufficient analgesia


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Medecines for the Treatment of Pain in Children

EMEA, London October 2004 Daniel Brasseur

Introduction

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Post-operative Pain in Children

a moving field where attitudes are changing…

Eland mid 70’s: almost 75% of insufficient analgesia Beyer 80’s: 50 children/50 adults 30 /70 treatment ratio Asprey 90’s: 968 doses given (against 24 in 1974) (Eland repetition) (same population) … but still … Newborns, Chronic diseases…

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Poor Clinical Information and no incentives for pharmaceutical research? Persistent Misinformation and fallacious belief that children do not suffer? Different Cultural Approaches and endurance of pain as educational / character building?

Pain in Children

Causes of under treatment:

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what can we propose and achieve together, also at the level of the EU-Authorities ? …. Particularly at a time when a New Regulation « Better Medecines for Children » is open for a public debate …

Pain in Children

Breaking the cycle …

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Although the world is full of suffering It is also full of the overcoming of it

Helen Keller

In: Pain in Infants, Children and Adolescents Schechter, Berde & Yaster