Neonatal Pain

[bebi23]

I am interesting about pain management  .tell me what is your  experience  and something about guidelines .

[Francesco Cardona]

Here is a guideline to prevent procedural pain by Italian Society of Neonatologists: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2688676/

 

or here a more general review on pharmacological options for treatment: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672765/

[selvanr4]

thanks a lot.

Many staff nurse do not have a concept of neonatal pain. we need to stress that again and again

[gopan2596]

I think pain management is becoming better with improved understanding of the same of recent , and having objective measures in place in the form of pain scoring for guidance  

 

Although pain management is a very important concept , please be aware of the results of the NOPAIN trial for preterm babies as well ,  which cautions on overzealous pain management with Morphine with risk of adverse outcome who were on the same . Also , about the risk of low respiratory drive with attend extubation difficulties

 

Cheers

Gopan