introduction: management of pain in children is often inadequate and numerous clinical practice guidelines and policy statements have been published on the subject of pediatric pain. tonsillectomy is among the most frequent otorhinolaryngologic surgeries, especially in the pediatric age group and after tonsillectomy the patients usually suffer from mild to severe pain for three postoperative da...

Codeine is a phenanthrene opioid derivative. It is listed in the 2010 WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children and in the 2010 WHO Model Formulary for Children to be used as analgesic for pain relief. Codeine phosphate has been recommended and widely used for the relief of moderate pain in children. WHO has undertaken the update of the 1998 WHO Guidelines on Cancer Pain Relief and Pal...

Letters " The AnAlgesic sTeplAdder-Missing rungs. " Editor, " On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. " Risk is an inevitable aspect of medical care with recent studies illustrating the potential harm that can be done to patients using diclofenac with a cardiac history and codeine in paediatric patients. These studies apply in both cases to small subsets of each...

Letters " The AnAlgesic sTeplAdder-Missing rungs. " Editor, " On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. " Risk is an inevitable aspect of medical care with recent studies illustrating the potential harm that can be done to patients using diclofenac with a cardiac history and codeine in paediatric patients. These studies apply in both cases to small subsets of each...