Three patients and their drugs: A parallel case paper on paediatric opiate use and withdrawal.
Clinicians are increasingly aware of the important role that opioids play in the management of a variety of paediatric conditions. Frequently, clinicians encounter challenges in initiating opioid therapy and, then, in weaning paediatric patients off opioids. In the present article, three different cases (an infant and two adolescents) are used to illustrate why and how opiates may be used in paediatrics and how they can be discontinued. The presentations include neonatal abstinence syndrome, chronic headache and cystic fibrosis. The cases are meant to emphasize the distinctions rather than the similarities among the cases, which is why this is called a case parallel, rather than a case series. The article downplays the use of rigid rules in managing patients on opioids, and emphasizes a flexible and patient-centred approach.
Siden
Harold B
HB
Department of Pediatrics, Children's & Women's Health Centre of British Columbia, University of British Columbia, and Canuck Place Children's Hospice.
Collin
Kathleen
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