The effects of different procedures on pain levels in preterm and term infants in neonatal intensive care unit: a cross-sectional survey of pain assessment in newborns.

Yunus Emre Kundakcı Mehmet Egilmez Nevin Ergun Yusuf Unal Sarikabadayi Bulent Elbasan

Published in: Irish journal of medical science (2022)

It is concluded that as GA and BW increase, so do the pain responses of the infant, which showed that the pain thresholds of term-preterm infants are different, and decrease as GA and BW increase.

Keyphrases

preterm infants
chronic pain
low birth weight
pain management
neuropathic pain
gestational age
pet ct
pregnant women
spinal cord injury
spinal cord
preterm birth