Pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as ‘an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage’. It is now accepted that pain should be anticipated, and safely and effectively controlled, in all children, whatever their age, maturity or severity of illness (Fisher & Morton 1998).
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