Hi everyone .... I’m waking up the children’s app thread with an excerpt from a story (which I am sure has been linked before, but may still be of interest to newcomers ) and some background on the leaders of the (current) Murdoch Institute study/trial.
In the excerpt below the person being quoted is Jeff Hughes, who (according to hearsay), is, even now, practically chained to his Eindhoven desk whilst Painchek’s technology is scrutinised and worked with by some of Philips Healthcare’s finest minds.
The story came up when I was looking for background information on Jeff.
Cheers
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“Research shows that 20% of children probably experience untreated acute pain. They suffer migraine, they get reflux pain, abdomen pain, joint pain and if not treated they can become chronic. And so for all our best effort not to give children pain medication when it is not required, there will be a percentage of children who are not medicated, or given other treatment, when it is required.”
“We have learnt skills over the time of this journey. We’re not programmers but we know what needs to be done and have collected libraries of children’s images undergoing things such as vaccinations and code, then train the algorithm.”
The amount of work needed to clear the dementia pain app through the regulators in Australia, Europe and now in the US for FDA approval, is being replicated by the team working on the children’s app.
The app is in prototype and has undergone in-house testing. The next step, says Jeff, is partnering with a group that provides access to young patients undergoing painful procedures and compare PainChek against a standard pain tool.
Less second-guessing
“The first area to be studied will be Face Leg Activity Crying Consolability (FLACC), which is a widely recognised tool but in the helter skelter of ED the best guess is still clinical judgement. Clinicians would find it very useful to use the same tool for every child so that when it comes to hand over a patient, there is tangible data. It will help enormously to maintain continuity of care,” Jeff said.”..........https://www.medicalhub.com.au/facing-up-to-pain/
On July 2, 2019 Small Caps’ Lorna Nicholas wrote;
.. “According to PainChek, the Melbourne institute is the largest child health research institute in Australia and one of the top three worldwide.
Prof Franz Babl and Associate Prof Di Crellin will lead the study in the emergency department of Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital.....
https://*********.com.au/painchek-child-health-research-institute-trial-pain-app-infants/
FWIW here’s some background on the very highly regarded Prof Franz Babl;
https://www.predict.org.au/about-us/executive-committee/franz-babl/
https://medicine.unimelb.edu.au/sch.../news-and-events/welcome-professor-franz-babl
And here is Associate Prof Di Crellin .....
....who is also an excellent choice to be leading the study, as it is her research that validated the two scales which have been integrated into by Painchek into the children’s app ...
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Around 100 infants who are already undergoing painful procedures within emergency departments will partake in the trial, and will be examined using the Face, Legs Activity Cris and Consolability (FLACC) scale, and the Modified Behaviour Pain Scale (MBPS)......
....professor Di Crellin....recently evaluated the validity of the MBPS and FLACC scales, at the the Melbourne Royal Children’s emergency department..”...
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/murdoch-childrens-research-institute-to-test-pain-analysis-app-527562
