Next-Gen Pediatric Pain Care: Building Adaptive and Scalable Solutions Across Care Settings

Pediatric pain remains poorly prioritized, recognized, and managed across all contexts, with under-resourced areas often most impacted. In the symposium, we will provide an overview of novel evidence-based strategies that can be utilized across contexts and populations. Speakers will include clinicians and researchers across multiple disciplines. Presentations will be interactive and highly focused on ensuring attendees leave with clinically adaptable, scalable, ‘practice-ready’, pain care strategies that can be easily implemented in both high and low resource areas. Inclusion of families in the development and implementation of pain strategies is critically important, and presenters will provide concrete ways they have involved patients and families. Topics will encompass multiple types of pain and across the developmental span from infants to adolescents. Examples include parent-led procedural pain care, needle-related pain care, utilization of accessible virtual reality interventions for procedural and chronic pain care, as well as perioperative management. The panel will engage the audience in a discussion on ways to collaborate to ensure equitable pain care for infants, children and adolescents across settings.