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Assessing pain in preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit: moving to a 'brain-oriented' approach
2011
Pain Management
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;
doi:10.2217/pmt.10.19
pmid:21874145
pmcid:PMC3161414
fatcat:euoszz3qmfdbbiwpevkjcf3g6m