Abstract
Background Pain is one of the most common symptoms presented by patients of all ages to ambulance services. Whilst children in pain are only a small proportion of the number of patients that pre-hospital care services attend, in only 40% of these cases is it deemed necessary for analgesic medication to be administered. At conception there were no identifiable UK studies considering the influence factors clinicians have in the assessment and treatment of out-of-hospital pain within a paediatric cohort. Aim