[Procedural pain in adults is not inevitable!]

The paradox between the beneficial intention of care and procedural pain highlights tensions relating to professional knowledge, denial attitudes and organizational deficiencies. Recognizing and assessing this pain category is critical for healthcare quality improvement. Current knowledge offers rich and effective preventive strategies. The multimodal approach incorporates the patient/caregiver relationship, non-pharmacological methods and preemptive analgesic administration. In this context, thanks to its properties and ease of use, EMONO (Equimolar Mixture of Oxygen and Nitrous Oxide) is a product worth knowing about and worth using, alone or in combination. Lifting the taboo and preventing procedural pain with patients is part of a process that can no longer be ignored.