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Letter to the Editor
Pain in young children attending the accident and emergency department
  1. Briar Stewart
  1. A&E Paediatric Pain Group, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Eaton Road, Liverpool L12 2AP, UK (Briar.Stewart@RLCH-TR.NWEST.NHS.UK)

    https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.18.5.412-a

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      Editor,—We read with interest the article by Macarthy et al.1 We too have experienced difficulties assessing and scoring children's pain in the accident and emergency (A&E) setting. We feel that while subjective assessment has been shown to be the gold standard of pain assessment in some settings, for example, postoperative pain, the unexpected nature and anxiety associated with …

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