Richardson Patricia A, Kundu Anjana
Departments of Pediatric Psychology and Pediatric Pain and Palliative Medicine, Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, 35 Michigan St. NE., Grand Rapids, MI 49503 USA.
Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, MI USA.
Curr Anesthesiol Rep. 2021;11(3):214-222. doi: 10.1007/s40140-021-00475-0. Epub 2021 Jul 26.
For many children, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has impacted the experience and treatment of their pain. This narrative review draws from the pain literature and emerging findings from COVID-19 research to highlight potentially meaningful directions for clinical consideration and empirical inquiry in the months and years to come.
COVID-19 has been linked to diffuse acute pains as well as chronic pain sequelae. Contextual factors known to increase vulnerability for pain and associated functional disability have been exacerbated during the pandemic. Beyond these salient concerns has been the remarkable resilience demonstrated by patients and providers as healthcare systems have sought to harness creativity and innovative digital solutions to support optimal child wellbeing throughout this crisis.
Ongoing research is needed to elucidate the short- and long-term effects of the pandemic on children's pain and to consider how the delivery of treatment via digital technology has impacted existing paradigms of pain management.
对许多儿童而言,新冠疫情影响了他们疼痛的体验和治疗。本叙述性综述借鉴疼痛文献以及新冠病毒病(COVID-19)研究的新发现,以突出在未来数月乃至数年中,临床考虑和实证研究可能有意义的方向。
COVID-19与弥漫性急性疼痛以及慢性疼痛后遗症有关。在疫情期间,已知会增加疼痛易感性和相关功能残疾的背景因素已加剧。除了这些突出问题外,患者和医护人员展现出了非凡的适应力,因为医疗系统在这场危机中努力发挥创造力并采用创新的数字解决方案来支持儿童的最佳健康状况。
需要持续开展研究,以阐明疫情对儿童疼痛的短期和长期影响,并思考通过数字技术提供治疗如何影响现有的疼痛管理模式。