Pediatric Perioperative Pain

Prospective 48-hour surgical camp registry · Protocol v1.0

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Administrative & enrollment

Centre
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New child? Tap below for the next number — don't invent one.

Ethical consent & assent

Module 1 Preoperative baseline

Recorded here and nowhere else — it is what lets a query be traced back to the patient record, so it never travels into Modules 2–5.

Works out the age. Stays on this phone — it is never saved or sent.

Type it here if the birth date is not known.

Sex
BMI (kg/m²)

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Physical status (ASA)
Routine or persistent pain lasting > 3 months
Child m-YPAS-SF (preoperative anxiety)

Pick the line that fits the child best in each of the four domains. The score works itself out.

m-YPAS-SF— / 100

Anxiolytic premedication

Hand the phone over: the caregiver slides to where their anxiety sits right now.

Not anxious
at all
Most anxious
imaginable
Caregiver anxietyNot yet marked

The number stays hidden so the caregiver marks the line, not a score.

Module 2 Intraoperative surgical & anesthetic log

Surgical domain
Approach

Times

Anaesthesia—
Surgery—

Anaesthesia

Type

Intraoperative opioids

Drug
Givennothing yet
Morphine equivalent—

Add each dose as it is given. The totals and the morphine equivalent work themselves out.

Regional analgesia

Multimodal non-opioids

Drug

Antiemetic

Drug

Module 3 PACU emergence delirium vs acute pain

Scored at arrival, 30 min and 60 min. A total of 10 or more with non-purposeful thrashing points to emergence delirium rather than pain — calming and reassurance, not more opioid.

PAED total— / 20

Nausea & vomiting

Module 4 Ward pain assessment

Enter the child's age in Module 1 and the right scale is chosen for you.

Regular analgesia prescribed — what is on the drug chart, not what was given
Drug

    Rest pain
    Dynamic pain (on movement)
    Nausea & vomiting

    Rebound spike
    Any analgesia since the last check?

    Module 5 Regional offset & recovery endpoints

    Block offset & rebound

    Rebound spike
    Burning character reported
    Immediate rescue needed

    Cumulative opioid burden

    Weight-adjusted OME (mg/kg)

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    Functional milestones