ArticleItalian journal of pediatrics2021
How to recognize and manage psychosomatic pain in the pediatric emergency department.
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- Efficacy of physiotherapy treatments in children and adolescents with somatic symptom disorder and other related disorders: systematic review of the literature.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2022Pooled it
- Healthcare utilisation patterns for paediatric functional somatic symptom presentation: a 3-year retrospective analysis.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Use of intranasal and sublingual analgesia in children and adolescents in the paediatric emergency department.BMJ paediatrics open · 2024Article
- School Absenteeism Longer Than Two Weeks Is a Red Flag of Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders in Hospitalised Children and Adolescents: A Matched Cohort Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Pain Management in Children Admitted to the Emergency Room: A Narrative Review.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- New insights in pediatrics in 2021: choices in allergy and immunology, critical care, endocrinology, gastroenterology, genetics, haematology, infectious diseases, neonatology, neurology, nutrition, palliative care, respiratory tract illnesses and telemedicine.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2022Review
- Significant Structural Alterations and Functional Connectivity Alterations of Cerebellar Gray Matter in Patients With Somatic Symptom Disorder.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- The utility of universal screening for somatization in a pediatric emergency department: A prospective evaluation.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
aimChildren and adolescents affected by somatization and somatic symptom disorder commonly refer to emergency services. Due to the absence of specific guidelines for the emergency setting and to a possible lack of knowledge, these patients are at risk of being unrecognized and mismanaged. This study aims at proposing a clinical practice to approach and manage these patients and their families in the emergency setting.
methodsThis manuscript derived from the work of a research group of italian pediatric emergency physicians and anesthesiologists, with an expertise in pain management, members of the PIPER group. The research group reviewed the literature about psychosomatic pain and somatic symptom disorder and developed a clinical practice specific for the pediatric emergency setting.
resultsThe manuscript provides information about the main clinical features shared by patients with psychosomatic pain and about current diagnostic criteria and appropriate management in the emergency setting. Furthermore, it highlights the possible pitfalls in which the emergency physician may run into dealing with these patients.
conclusionThis clinical practice should be seen as a starting point toward a better understanding of patients with psychosomatic pain and a standardization of care in the pediatric emergency setting.
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