ArticlePain management2011
Assessing pain in preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit: moving to a 'brain-oriented' approach.
Article in Pain management, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05080582 (Does Mother Scented Simulated Hand Promote Comfort, Reduce Pain and Distress Among Mechanically Ventilated Preterm Neonates During Invasive Procedures), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers.
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Does Mother Scented Simulated Hand Promote Comfort, Reduce Pain and Distress Among Mechanically Ventilated Preterm Neonates During Invasive Procedures
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effect of pacifier and pacifier with dextrose in reducing pain during orogastric tube insertion in newborns: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2024Trial
- Effects of fentanyl and sucrose on pain in retinopathy examinations with pain scale, near-infrared spectroscopy, and ultrasonography: a randomized trial.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2023Trial
- Nonpharmacological Pain Management for Premature Neonates in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: A Meta-Analysis.Health science reports · 2026Review
- Pain in Preterm Infants: Different Perspectives.The Journal of perinatal education · 2021Article
- The Extremely Preterm Infant: Ethical Considerations in Life-and-Death Decision-Making.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2020Review
- Neonatal Pain: Perceptions and Current Practice.Critical care nursing clinics of North America · 2018Review
- Individual contextual factors in the validation of the Bernese pain scale for neonates: protocol for a prospective observational study.BMC pediatrics · 2017Observational
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- Pain management in newborns.Clinics in perinatology · 2014Review
- Neonatal pain control and neurologic effects of anesthetics and sedatives in preterm infants.Clinics in perinatology · 2014Review
- Neurophysiological measures of nociceptive brain activity in the newborn infant--the next steps.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2014Article
- Neonatal pain.Paediatric anaesthesia · 2014Review
- The effect of endotracheal tube suctioning education of nurses on decreasing pain in premature neonates.Iranian journal of pediatrics · 2013Article
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Abstract
Preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit undergo repeated exposure to procedural and ongoing pain. Early and long-term changes in pain processing, stress-response systems and development may result from cumulative early pain exposure. So that appropriate treatment can be given, accurate assessment of pain is vital, but is also complex because these infants' responses may differ from those of full-term infants. A variety of uni- and multidimensional assessment tools are available; however, many have incomplete psychometric testing and may not incorporate developmentally important cues. Near-infrared spectroscopy and/or EEG techniques that measure neonatal pain responses at a cortical level offer new opportunities to validate neonatal pain assessment tools.
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