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We describe here a paediatric patient who underwent forefoot amputation following traumatic foot injury and received multimodal pain therapy including pregabalin.<\/jats:p>\n                    <jats:p>The current experiment aimed at studying effects of empathic communication, and more specifically validation, on recall during a pain test and possible mediators and moderators of this effect.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_j.sjpain.2017.09.001_s_002\">\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A 4.5 year-old otherwise healthy girl suffered severe injuries of the right foot and lower leg during a motor vehicle accident. Due to development of severe necrosis, forefoot amputation had to be performed during the hospital stay.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_j.sjpain.2017.09.001_s_003\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Initial pain therapy included paracetamol, ibuprofen, metamizol, morphine and fentanyl. With mounting pain and anxiety, regional anaesthesia of the distal sciatic nerve was administered in combination with a ketamine and morphine patient controlled analgesia pump (PCA). The peripheral blockade of the distal sciatic nerve was placed with the guidance of ultrasound and nerve stimulator. The PCA concept included a continuous basal rate combined with a bolus function. Although the regional anaesthesia was well positioned and functioning, there was inadequate pain control. The pain was described by the patient as short, highly intense and sharp sensations with intensity on the visual analogue scale (VAS) of 10 (out of 10). Furthermore, she suffered from anxiety episodes and sleep disturbance. The medical team decided to treat with pregabalin to resolve these issues while awaiting amputation (Lisfranc line). She received psychological counselling as adjunct treatment. This multimodal concept enabled an early and efficient pain reduction pre- and post-amputation and allowed for the possibility of a hospital discharge without any opioid pain medication.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_j.sjpain.2017.09.001_s_004\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The multimodal pain therapy including pregabalin was well tolerated, safe and highly effective in this case of traumatic limb injury and subsequent amputation. The use of pregabalin allowed significant pain and anxiety reduction for the patient.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_j.sjpain.2017.09.001_s_005\">\n                    <jats:title>Implications<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Pregabalinis frequentlyused in adult patients for severe complex pain syndromes. There are only few reports of such adjunct medication (pregabalin) in paediatric pain syndromes. These reports focus mainly on the paediatric oncologic population. The case reported here encourages physicians to consider adjunct medications when treating complex pain, which are well established in the adult population. The benefits of such therapy in complex pain and anxiety can be extended to the paediatric population in select cases. Of course, one must always take into account that many routine medications used in children are well established but are off-label use. The authors are well aware of this problem and have conducted a critical literature review prior to pregabalin administration, including the search for randomized trials examining safety and tolerability. The parents or legal guardians of a minor must be thoroughly informed and consent to such a constellation of medical treatment.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1016\/j.sjpain.2017.09.001","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,9,23]],"date-time":"2017-09-23T04:42:06Z","timestamp":1506141726000},"page":"146-149","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/elsevier_cm_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Pregabalin as adjunct in a multimodal pain therapy after traumatic foot amputation \u2014 A case report of a 4-year-old girl"],"prefix":"10.1515","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Stephanie","family":"W\u00f6ssner","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anaesthesiology , Kantonsspital St. Gallen , Rorschacher Strasse 95, CH-9007 St. Gallen , Kantonsspital Switzerland"},{"name":"Paediatric Anaesthesia , Ostschweizer Kinderspital , Claudiusstrasse 6, 9006 St. Gallen Claudiusstrasse , Switzerland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kirsten","family":"Weber","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Paediatric Surgery , Ostschweizer Kinderspital , Claudiusstrasse 6, 9006 St. Gallen , Claudiusstrasse Switzerland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anna C.","family":"Steinbeck","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Paediatric Cardiology , Klinikum Gro\u03b2hadern , University of Munich , Marchioninistra\u03b2e 15, 81377 Munich , Munich Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Markus","family":"Oberhauser","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anaesthesiology , Kantonsspital St. Gallen , Rorschacher Strasse 95, CH-9007 St. Gallen , Kantonsspital Switzerland"},{"name":"Paediatric Anaesthesia , Ostschweizer Kinderspital , Claudiusstrasse 6, 9006 St. Gallen Claudiusstrasse , Switzerland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Matthias","family":"Feuerecker","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anaesthesiology , Kantonsspital St. Gallen , Rorschacher Strasse 95, CH-9007 St. Gallen , Kantonsspital Switzerland"},{"name":"Paediatric Anaesthesia , Ostschweizer Kinderspital , Claudiusstrasse 6, 9006 St. Gallen Claudiusstrasse , Switzerland"},{"name":"Department of Anaesthesiology , Klinikum Gro\u03b2hadern , University of Munich , Marchioninistra\u03b2e 15, 81377 Munich , Munich Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"374","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,10,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025120909543857704_j_j.sjpain.2017.09.001_ref_001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Jensen TS, Krebs B, Nielsen J, Rasmussen P. 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