Landspitali - University Hospital
Workshop on methods for reducing pain and anxiety in children in treatment intervention
1st September 2023
08:00 to 16:00
Decode
The main topic of the seminar is the preparation of children for interventions that may cause pain and/or be anxious
Interventions related to treatment are usually what children fear the most when coming to health institutions.
What will be covered:
Assessment of child and family - Fear to trust continuum
Building trust with children
Arousing curiousity and engaging the child
Desensitisation
Matching
Attention control - distraction - deep dive - developmental tasks
Comfort positioning
Communication with children
Post - procedural reframing
Pain management and sedation before procedures
Implementation
The conference is in english
Program | ||
|---|---|---|
07.45 – 08.15 | ||
08.15 - 08.20 (5 min) | Welcome and introduction | Iceland team |
08.20 – 09.50 (90 min) • Understanding Procedural Distress (30 min) • Establishing Trust (60 min) | Foundations of Patient Comfort • Elements of a multimodal approach • Understanding Procedural Distress • Establishing Trust with children: Framework and methods | Piet Leroy, Baruch Krauss |
09.50 – 10.10 (20 min) | Break | |
10.10- 11.40 (90 min) • Procedural Comfort Care (45 min) • Procedu | Foundations of Patient Comfort • Environmental control • Comfort measures • Team dynamics • Drugs and monitoring | Piet Leroy, Baruch Krauss |
11.40 – 12:25 (45 min) | Lunch | |
12:30-2:00 (90 minutes) | Case-Based Problem Solving • Discuss the elements of a successfully managed procedure o What went well o What did go well • Identify challenges and barriers • Develop a framework for problem solving | Piet Leroy, Baruch Krauss, Iceland multidisciplinary panel |
2:00-2:20 (20 minutes) | Break | |
2:20-3:50 (90 minutes) | Moving From Challenge to Solution - Implementing Change • Strategies for professional and educational challenges • Potential solutions • Strategies for implementation • Developing a roadmap for change | Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their needs and the specific challenges they face, and develop a strategy for implementing a set of potential solutions |
3:50-4:00 (10 minutes) | Wrap up | Piet Leroy, Baruch Krauss, Iceland team |
Lecturer
Piet Leroy (MD, PhD, MSc)
Piet Leroy (Belgium) is a senior consultant in paediatric critical care and director of the Paediatric Procedural Sedation Unit at Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands. He is an associate professor (domain of medical teaching) at the Faculty of Health, Life Sciences and medicine at Maastricht University and graduated in 2017 as a Master in Health Professions Education at the Maastricht School of Health Professions Education.
His main research topics concern delirium in critical care and procedural sedation in children. Within these fields he has published over 50 scientific papers, guidelines and book chapters and lectured at more than 100 scientific meetings over the last decade. In 2012 he obtained a PhD degree at Maastricht University with a thesis entitled ‘Improving Procedural Sedation and Analgesia in Children: from practice over evidence to practice’. He is a board member of the International Committee for the Advancement of Procedural Sedation. Currently he is setting up an interdisciplinary training and implementation program for trauma-free medical care in children.
Baruch S. Krauss (MD, EDM)
Baruch S. Krauss (USA) is a pediatrician and emergency physician at Boston Children's Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
He is an international expert on the pharmacological and non-pharmacological management of acute pain and anxiety in children. His research topics are establishing trust with children, pharmacological management of procedural pain and anxiety in children and diagnostic monitoring with capnography. Within these fields he has published over 100 scientific papers, guidelines and book chapters.
Preperation committee
Karítas Gunnarsdóttir, sérfræðingur í barnahjúkrun
Oddný Kristinsdóttir, sérfræðingur í barnahjúkrun
Steinunn Snæbjörnsdóttir, svæfingarhjúkrunarfræðingur
Theódór Skúli Sigurðsson, sérfræðingur í svæfingarlækningum barna
Ásgeir Haraldsson, prófessor í barnalækningum
Grants
Friðrikssjóður
Fagdeildir barnahjúkrunarfræðinga, bráðahjúkrunarfræðinga, gjörgæsluhjúkrunarfræðinga, heilsugæsluhjúkrunarfræðinga, skurðhjúkrunarfræðinga og svæfingahjúkrunarfræðinga.
Félag barnalækna, bráðalækna, svæfingalækna og tannlækna.