Effects
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Children's responses to medical trauma are often more related to their subjective experience of the medical event rather than its objective severity.
Pediatric medical traumatic stress refers to a set of psychological and physiological responses of children and their families to pain, injury, serious illness, medical procedures, and invasive or frightening treatment experiences. Medical trauma may occur as a response to a single or multiple medical events.
Children's responses to medical trauma are often more related to their subjective experience of the medical event rather than its objective severity.