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AUGUST 15, 2019

Opioid Sparing Is Goal of Pediatric Pain Management

By Nikki Kean

To address the undertreatment of both acute and chronic pain in children, more clinicians are turning to multimodal pain management approaches, according to pediatric pain specialist Peter N. Johnson, PharmD.

Despite improved hospital policies and pain teams, “we still have a lot of pediatric patients in pain,” said Dr. Johnson, an associate professor in the Department of Pharmacy: Clinical and Administrative Sciences at the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy, in