통증센터로 의뢰된 소아 환자의 치료 경험 = Experience of the Pediatric Patients Consulted to Pain Center

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the management
of pediatric patients who were referred to the pain center.
Methods: The data was collected based on 32 pediatric patients
referred to the pain center from March 2002 to August 2006. The
number of patients each year, gender distribution, age, requested
departments, clinical causes of consultation, and the pain management
before and after the consultation were analyzed retrospectively.
Results: 32 pediatric patients (19 males and 13 females), aged 3-
17 years, were enrolled in this study. Fifty-six percent of patients
were in adolescence. The major need for the consultation was
cancer pain (50.0%), myofascial pain syndrome (10.0%) and central
pain (10.0%). Before the consultation, 62.1% of the patients were
managed by opioid-based medications of which 26.1% were managed
by only partial agonists and 29.6% were managed by only
PRN. At the pain center, opioid-based medication was also the main
treatment.
Conclusions: The number of pediatric patients referred to the pain
center has increased. Under this condition, the pain physician
should be concerned about pediatric pain patients and their management.