A study found that pediatricians should avoid using opioids in children as monotherapy and look to a multimodal pain management approach in pediatric practices (Pediatrics 2024 Sep 30:e2024068752. doi:10.1542/peds. 2024-068752).
“A major takeaway from our research, which was collected from best practices on pain medicine management over the past three years, is that every child must have access to naloxone,” said Scott E. Hadland, MD, the chief of adolescent and young adult medicine