Background
The need for adequate management of analgesia in the
intensive care unit (ICU) has been well recognised for
children with and without mechanical ventilation (MV), as
well as for children given neuromuscular blocking agents.
Previous studies have shown that accurate pain assessment
and appropriate interventions can alleviate pain for children
after surgery (Hammer et al. 2005, Ganesh et al. 2007).
However, children’s pain is often undertreated in both
developing and developed countries (Howard 2003, Kumar
2009)..