title: Pain management for pediatric tonsillectomy: an integrative review through the perioperative and home experience.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This integrative review aims to increase our understanding of current pain management care practices for children undergoing tonsillectomy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Synthesis of the literature resulted in four main opportunities for care providers to manage pain: preoperative education and preparation, intraoperative surgical interventions, and postoperative pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions in the post anesthesia care unit and home settings.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nurses have many opportunities to understand pain management practices and intervene to minimize pain experienced in pediatric outpatients undergoing tonsillectomy.
authors.affiliation: Cardiac Stepdown/PACU, Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware.
authors.forename: Dekeisha
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Howard
authors.forename: Katherine Finn
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: Eileen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.forename: Eileen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ryan
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Scalford
authors.forename: Regina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Flynn-Roth
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ely
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D059408:Pain Management; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010371:Pediatric Nursing; D014068:Tonsillectomy
keywords: Pain; pain management; pediatric; postoperative pain; review; tonsillectomy