- SPARADRAP
SPARADRAP, getting to know us
Over twenty years' experience
In 1986, in the children's ward of an ENT hospital, two anaesthetists took several measures to improve the management of children undergoing tonsils and adenoids operations. They widened the use of anaesthesia, explained the anaesthesia and the operation to the families and introduced genuine pain management and an approach to healthcare through play. With the help of the Fondation de France, SPARADRAP was founded in 1993 by parents and healthcare professionals in order to develop and broaden the use of these practices.
An ambitious programme
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to better inform and prepare children and their parents for care
health tests, hospitalisation - promote better management of pain in children
- enhance the role of family and friends when children are sick and hospitalised
An original approach
- recognise the child as a credible partner
- reconcile the needs of family with those of professionals
- criticize, where necessary, while at the same time proposing concrete solutions
Concrete and innovative activities
- illustrated, practical documents to inform children, parents and professionals
- a website.sparadrap.org, to inform and advise children, parents and healthcare professionals
- training programmes and pilot projects for healthcare professionals
High degree of involvement by Members
- a Board chaired by Dr Catherine Devoldère, head of a paediatrics department
- a team of six employees and about one hundred volunteers
- a patron: Dr Michel Cymes, specialist in a Parisian hospital and health TV journalist
