The COMFORT behavioural scale provides a useful assessment of sedation, pain and distress in toddlers undergoing minor elective surgery.

Randi Dovland AndersenTomm BernklevAnn Langius-EklöfBritt NakstadLeena Jylli

Published in: Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) (2015)

The COMFORT behavioural scale can provide one aspect of an overall clinical assessment of sedation, and probably pain and distress, in toddlers before and after surgery.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
pain management
neuropathic pain
minimally invasive
mechanical ventilation
patients undergoing
coronary artery bypass
spinal cord injury
spinal cord
postoperative pain
acute respiratory distress syndrome
percutaneous coronary intervention
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation