title: More work needed in child analgesia.
abstract: Children in intensive care endure scores of painful invasive procedures without any extra analgesia, a new study shows. The research, in the British /Medical Journal, found that of 181 invasive procedures carried out in the paediatric ITU at the Royal Brompton Hospital, almost a third were done without additional analgesia. The children cried and grimaced in many of the cases where extra pain control was not given. Hilary Herron. Chair of the Royal College of Nursing Paediatric Nursing Society, described the findings as 'disturbing and warned they show more work needs to be done on paediatric pain control.