Pain in the newborn.
This article reviews historic assumptions about newborns that have influenced the clinical management of pain in the newborn. These are discussed in light of more recent evidence that newborns not only experience pain but that their responses to pain may compromise their medical status and development. Currently available techniques for assessing newborn pain are considered with special emphasis on an objective clinical index of newborn pain.
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Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000379:methods