extractions. 13 – 15 However, for unknown reasons, the impact of these studies has been slow to permeate into clinical knowledge and translate into clinical intervention.
Postoperative pain is often a new experience for young children. The complexity of interpreting and verbalizing pain may be convoluted further by unfamiliar postoperative sensations from general anesthesia (GA), surgical site discomfort, and disorientation. The recovery period after surgery may require formal assessments of pain in this population.
Our literature review identified 6