How can we measure infants' pain after an operation?
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 09:30
in Health & Medicine
It turns out to be difficult to find out exactly how much a child who cannot yet speak suffers after a surgical operation. Researchers at the University Hospital of La Paz, in Madrid, have validated the 'Llanto' scale, the first, and only, tool in Spanish which measures infant pain rapidly and simply.