Tag Archives: pain

Pain, still bad for you

Posted on 24 February 2014 by Keith Barrington

Roofthooft DWE, Simons SHP, Anand KJS, Tibboel D, van Dijk M: Eight years later, are we still hurting newborn infants. Neonatology 2014, 105(3):218-226. The answer is yes, but much less! In this study from a single hospital in Rotterdam with … Continue reading →

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Does being ventilated hurt? It depends who you ask

Posted on 21 February 2014 by Keith Barrington

Ruth Guinsburg is a neonatologist in Sao Paulo who has been super-productive, especially in the area of pain control in the newborn. Her latest is an interesting comparison of how caregivers and parents rate pain in infants on ventilators. Elias … Continue reading →

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More Pain

Posted on 25 October 2013 by Keith Barrington

One comment on a previous post was about pain control for, among other things, nasogastric tube insertion. Lo and behold a new publication (Ravishankar A, Thawani R, Dewan P, Das S, Kashyap A, Batra P, Faridi MMA: Oral dextrose for … Continue reading →

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Pain research in the newborn, what is ethical?

Posted on 21 October 2013 by Keith Barrington

Annie Janvier’s comment on my recent post made we wonder what are the ethical limits of pain research in the newborn. Let me start with an adult analogy, if a researcher wanted to investigate the efficacy of a new analgesic … Continue reading →

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Pain hurts

Posted on 21 October 2013 by Keith Barrington

In 2010 a paper published in the Lancet called into question the use of sucrose as an analgesic for heelsticks. (I will use the US term as I think most people understand that it refers to lancing the heel of … Continue reading →

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