Turkish Neonatal Society guideline on the neonatal pain and its management

Şule Yiğit, Ayşe Ecevit, Özge Altun Köroğlu, Şule Yiğit, Ayşe Ecevit, Özge Altun Köroğlu

Abstract

Pain control is an important ethical issue to be considered and constitutes the basis of treatment in premature and term newborns. The inadequacy of pain control in these infants in neonatal intensive care units leads to neurodevelopmental and behavioral problems in the long term. For this reason, it is extremely important to raise awareness of the presence of pain in newborn infants, to reduce invasive procedures applied to infants as much as possible, and to minimize pain with non-pharmacologic or pharmacologic treatments when it is inevitable.

Keywords: Newborn; pain; treatment.

Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest: No conflict of interest was declared by the authors.

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Morphine tapering guideline Written: 06/15/09 Sarah Tierney Pharm D, Julie Lindower MD, MPH &Stephanie Stewart RN, MSN; Updated: 11/17/09, 3/12/2012 Jonathan Klein, MD and Sarah Tierney, Pharm D, University of Iowa Children’s Hospital, NeonatologyTextbook

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