Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents

by Neil L. Schechter, Myron Yaster

This book provides children's health care professionals and other practitioners with the tools necessary to assess and manage pain in children. It centralizes information about children's pain, dispels myths about the child's experience of pain, provides a foundation for future research and attempts to change attitudes which foster undertreatment. This book offers a comprehensive analysis which addresses this complex and controversial topic from a multidisciplinary approach.

592 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1992