Study of a Therapy Without Drugs, Supplementary to an Usual Treatment for the Pains Caused by Removing the Redon's Drain From a 7 to 17 Years Old Child in Pediatric Surgery.

The 3rd governmental plan of fighting against the pain favored the development and the evaluation of the efficiency of the non pharmacological methods. Its results always showes a lack of knowledge of these methods and the utility to pursue the researches. In the department of pediatric surgery of the university hospital of Limoges, the relaxing-touch is one of these methods which is more and more used. The healthcare staff noticed the beneficial effects of such an empirical method in terms of comfort and quality of life for the children. In 2011, a pilot study led in this department showed that, in spite of the usual treatment, the removal of the Redon's drain remains painful for 25 % of the children (score on the pain scale \> or = 4). This result convinced the medical team to write a protocol of research from the following hypothesis: the implementation of a protocol of the Redon's drain removal associated to the relaxing touch and usual treatment could lead to a decrease of the acute pain for a 7 to 17 years old child.