#53 Are You Making the Most of Your "Golden Half-Hour" With Your Pediatric Pain Patients?

Dr. Neil Schechter, MD, shares what the patients and families report as the most important and helpful elements during their pain care visit and what they desire from clinicians.

Additionally, he shares the practical tips to engage patients and families and how to effectively provide feedback during a pain evaluation even for the most complex patients.

Takeaways in This Episode

Dr. Neil Schechter's journey from developmental pediatrics to pediatric pain management. What parents of children with chronic pain report as the most important  and helpful elements in their pain care visits Why these elements are felt to be equally if not more important than any medications, procedure or treatments modalities Providing context of pain and its nuances for parents and healthcare professionals. The impact of what healthcare professionals say to patients and families. Importance of feedback during a pediatric pain care visits 3 Key components of feedback for patients and families during a pediatric pain care evaluation Ways to create a lasting impact from your feedback Keys to professional longevity with particular tips for pediatric pain professionals. Dr Schechter's advice for healthcare professionals caring for children's pain

Links

Neil Schechter, MD

Pedia Pain Focus Episode #8. What Patients Want More Than Any Scripts or Tests

The Golden Half Hour in Chronic Pediatric Pain-Feedback as the First Intervention

ChildKind International

Chronic Pain & Illness Workbook for Teens

When Your Child Hurts

Clinicians' Pain Evaluation Toolkit

Proactive Pain Solutions

 

About the Guest Speaker

Neil Schechter, MD

Neil Schechter, MD is the Director of Chronic Pain Clinic; Senior Associate in Pain Medicine, in the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital. He's an Associate Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Schechter received his medical degree from the University of Connecticut. He completed pediatric training at the University of Connecticut and fellowships in psychosomatic pediatrics and developmental pediatrics at Children’s Hospital and Harvard University in Boston. He has authored over 120 articles and is the senior editor of Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents, the major multi-disciplinary textbook in the area of pediatric pain. He has served on a number of editorial boards and expert committees in the area of pediatric pain including the World Health Organization Expert Committee on Pediatric Pain and Palliative Care, the Task Force on Chronic Pain in Children of the American Pain Society, and the Rome IV Committee on Pediatric Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders. He has given numerous named lectureships and received the Jeffrey Lawson Award for Advocacy in Children’s Pain Relief from the American Pain Society.

Dr. Schechter’s initial research focus was on documenting the under-treatment of pain in children and attempting to understand its origin. He then became involved in issues of pain associated with chronic disease where his research focused on sickle cell disease and on painful procedures in children with chronic disease. Most recently, he has become interested in the more common pains associated with pediatric practice such as injection pain and functional pain syndromes as well as developing strategies to alter pain-related practice patterns in health care providers and institutions.

He is the President & CEO of ChildKind, a global initiative to reduce pain in children’s healthcare institutions.