Distracting Children To Ease Pain During Medical Procedures

A new system under development by a team of researchers at the University of Iowa will help children better cope with pain during difficult medical procedures.The system works by using a Web-based software to advise nurses on the best way to distract children from the procedures that cause the pain. The distractions could be anything from having a book read to them, watching a video, talking, or playing a game. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Pain / Anesthetics on October 20th, 2007