Milwaukee—Nondrug interventions may boost the effectiveness of pharmacologic pain management and/or reduce the need for it. Nevertheless, nonpharmacologic pain treatments are probably underused and may be insufficiently documented in the pediatric ICU (PICU).
This is according to research that was presented at the 2019 American Pain Society Scientific Meeting (abstract 141).
“For this study, we looked at the differences in nonpharmacologic pain interventions and how these were being