ReviewPaediatric & neonatal pain2020
Neonatal pain: A journey spanning three decades.
Review in Paediatric & neonatal pain, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Assessment of cortisol as a neonatal pain biomarker in the application of non-pharmacological analgesia therapies: systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pediatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Effect of Non-Pharmacological Methods in the Reduction of Neonatal Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Anesthetic practices and physiological foundations in fetal surgery: a literature review.Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2026Review
- Pediatric Pain Management: An Observational Study on Nurses' Knowledge of Non-Pharmacological Techniques.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Article
- Use of glucose for pain management in premature neonates: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Future roles of artificial intelligence in early pain management of newborns.Paediatric & neonatal pain · 2021Review
- Neonatal pain: A journey spanning three decades.Paediatric & neonatal pain · 2020Review
- To know where we came from.Paediatric & neonatal pain · 2020Article
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Abstract
From 1980 into present day, 2020, the evolution of neonatal pain research is told as a journey by one researcher, Celeste Johnston. At the beginning of her work, there was essentially no interest or work in the area. She was fortunate to be led into the area by a clinical problem: how to determine the amount of pain babies in the NICU were experiencing. That question resulted in over three decades of work with neonates. Measuring pain was the first challenge and is one that remains a focus of current research. Initially, the only choices for treating pain in neonates were either opioids or anesthetics, each with problems. Research on sweet taste and more recently on skin-to-skin contact has offered effective and safe options for procedural pain. Although progress has been made in the incidence of pain management in infants, it still is far less than it could be. Steps along the way of measurement, treatment, and knowledge utilization are chronicled by this researcher.
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