Effective treatment of pain is an important objective of neonatal medicine. A frequently performed painful procedure during neonatal intensive care is blood sampling. The oral application of ...
Background and aims: In term neonates venepuncture is considered less painful than heel lance for blood sampling. Here, we compared the effects of venepuncture and heel lance blood sampling in preterm ...
A new Cochrane review has found that sucrose can help with pain relief in newborn babies during common hospital procedures, such as venepuncture. This involves drawing blood with a needle, typically ...
Mariana Bueno, an Assistant Professor at the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, is the lead author of a recently published Cochrane review investigating the administration of sucrose as a form of ...
Mariana Bueno, an Assistant Professor at the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, is the lead author of a recently published Cochrane review investigating the administration of sucrose as a form of ...
Patients who are given a local anesthetic before inserting a cannula into the vein have reduced sensation of pain when larger gauge cannulas are used. Compared with intradermal lidocaine infusion, the ...