Pain and Palliative Care
The section on Pain and Palliative Care contains
articles on pain management, treatments for pain, quality of life
issues, issues involving death and dying, and palliative care and
hospice programs.Pain
- Functional Abdominal Pain and Visceral Hyperalgesia
- The Crisis in Pain Control for Children who are Complex, Non-Verbal, or Cognitively Impaired
- The Importance of Early and Aggressive Pain Treatment in Children with Complex Medical Issues
- Vibration for Pain Control and Calming
- Types of Pain in Children with Special Needs and Their Treatment
- Neuro-Crying, Neuro-Irritability, or Pain? A Personal Account
- Autonomic Events and Crises: An Underdiagnosed Cause of Discomfort
- When No One Is Listening: Advocating Successfully with Your Child's Medical Team
Palliative Care
- An Introduction to Pediatric Palliative Care
- Choosing Palliative Care: Not Just for the Terminally Ill
- Keeping Your Child Out of the Hospital: Treating Serious Illnesses at Home
- A Process of Grief: The Reality of Grieving a Child with Complex Health Care Needs
- Long-Term Parenteral Nutrition as a Palliative Care Treatment
- Palliative Schooling
- Support Award: George Mark Children's House
- Using Children's Books to Support Siblings
- Living Your Best While Preparing for the Worst
- Quality of Life: Tubes, Lines, and Other Attachments
Death and Dying
- A Process of Grief: The Reality of Grieving a Child with Complex Health Care Needs
- Life After Mito
- Alize's Story: How Alize Earned His Wings
- Using Children's Books to Support Siblings
- Remembering Sebastian with Joy: Rituals of Remembrance
- Living Your Best While Preparing for the Worst
- Tommy's Life: It's the Legacy that Matters
- What You See and What You Don't: Diagnosing Niemann Pick, Type C