1. Comfort measures for peripheral I.V. catheter placement in children
- Author
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Sarah Vittone, Christina Schott, and Victoria Brown
- Subjects
Advanced and Specialized Nursing ,Focus (computing) ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Catheters ,business.industry ,Best practice ,Psychological intervention ,Comfort measures ,Pain ,Assessment and Diagnosis ,Emergency Nursing ,LPN and LVN ,Critical Care Nursing ,Peripheral ,Procedural Pain ,Catheterization, Peripheral ,Physical therapy ,Medicine ,Humans ,business ,Catheter placement ,Child ,Pain Measurement - Abstract
I.V. catheter placement is one of the most common causes of procedural pain in children. Interventions to address this pain are readily available but inconsistently used in practice. The focus of this article is to identify and encourage best practice for pain mitigation in peripheral I.V. catheter placement in children.
- Published
- 2021