Inadequate postoperative pain control causes significant morbidity and mortality. ht the presets mum in the paediatric surgery department the effective pain control is am mandardkert For this reason this study was undertaken to find out the degree of effective postoperative pain control in children by using Visual Analogue Scale iVA.St It was a crospsemional study for two years. Sample sine was 90 with a mean age of 8.7 years. Patients were selected from the Department of Paediatric Surgery of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). Dhaka; Bangladesh Institute of Child Health & Dhaka Shishu Hospital HliCH &DSH). Dhaka; and Dhaka Medical College hospital (DMC111. Dhaka. Children aged five to 12 years receiving postoperative analgesics were included in this study. All of them were mentally healthy. well responsive and cmoperative. Patients were selected in such a way that neither thee hod any malignant disease nor were they stoffernsg front any chronic pain or postoperative pain due to magical wound sepsis. Postoperative pain was measured by VAS from the first postoperative day to the seventh postoperative day and was graded by she Sriwatanakars method. It vans Plod that difference in pain scams were statistically nowsigo0ficant among the three institutes front the first postoperative day to the seventh postoperative day. Patients experienced moderate pain up to the third postoperative day, mild pain up to the fifth postoperative day and. ome pain up to the sowsh postoperative day. Postoperative pain was mu effectively controlled by currently used analgesics in paediatric surgery departments in these hospitals. So so find at the degree of effrctice postoperative pain control in children fierther study should be carried 0111 with large number of patients in different mares of Bangladesh.
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