National pain guidelines

Dear fellow-members!

Together with a student, Isa Sundell, I try to collect national guidelines for neonatal pain management. With helpful support from many professionals in neonatology worldwide, we have received several examples, and have compiled a list of the result so far (see short list below). I now turn to you: maybe there are new guideIines or updates we are not aware of. It would be a great help to us if you could send information about such guidelines in your country. Absolutely best would be to recieve an electronic copy or a web-link, or in printed form to adress below, but second best would be a reply to the following questions:

1 Country:

2 Year of publication of national neonatal pain guidelines:

3 Who issued the guidelines (goverment, professional society etc)?

4 The guidelines have suggestions for

a) post-operative pain Yes / No

other ongoing pain (ventilator etc) Yes / No

c) procedural pain Yes / No

d) pain assessement Yes / No

e) pharmacological pain treatment Yes / No

f) non-pharmacologica pain treatment Yes / No

The results will published in a report / scientific publication in 2012. Thank you in advance!

Yours sincerely

Mats Eriksson & Isa Sundell

e-mail: isa.sundell@orebroll.se

mail: Isa Sundell, VFC, Örebro university hospital, S-70185 Sweden

List of guidelines

Australia and New Zeeland - 2005 - Royal Australasian College of Physicians

Australia and New Zeeland - 2007 - Australian and New Zeeland Neonatal Network

Brazil - 2011 - Ministry of Health

Canada and USA - 2000/2007 -

Canadian Paediatric Society, Fetus and Newborn Committee

Denmark - (summer 2012, ongoing work) - Special Interest Group in Neonatal Nursing

France - 2009/2011 - Agence francais de sécurité sanitarire des produits de santé

Great Britain and Ireland - 2008 - Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland

Great Britain - 2000/2009 - Royal College of Nursing

Iceland - 2004 - Local guidelines on the only NICU

Ireland - 2008 - Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists

Italy - 2005/2008 - Pain Study Group of the Italian Society of Neonatology

The Netherlands - 2007 - Dutch Society of Pediatrics

The Netherlands - 1995 - National Studygroup for Pain in NICU's

Norway - 2003 (part of general guidelines) - The Norwegian Physician Society

Poland - 2008

Sweden - 2002/2009 - Swedish Paediatric Pain Association