Pain management in newborns: From prevention to treatment

Pediatric Drugs

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 353-365

  Walter Nicolet, Elizabeth ^a   Annequin, Daniel ^a   Biran, Valerie ^a   Mitanchez, Delphine ^a   Tourniaire, Barbara ^a  

^a ARMAND TROUSSEAU HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Alfentanil, therapeutic use; Fentanyl, therapeutic use; Ketamine, therapeutic use; Lidocaineprilocaine, therapeutic use; Methadone, therapeutic use; Midazolam, therapeutic use; Morphine, therapeutic use; Neonates; Nitrous oxide, therapeutic use; Opioid analgesics, therapeutic use; Pain, prevention; Pain, treatment; Paracetamol, therapeutic use; Propofol, therapeutic use; Sucrose, therapeutic use.

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; ANALGESIC AGENT; EMLA; FENTANYL; GLUCOSE; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; METHADONE; METHYLENE BLUE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; NITROUS OXIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PALIVIZUMAB; PARACETAMOL; PLACEBO; PROPOFOL; SUCROSE; SUFENTANIL; TETRACAINE;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ARTERY PUNCTURE; ASTHMA; BRADYCARDIA; BREAST FEEDING; BRONCHOSPASM; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ECZEMA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LARYNX SPASM; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; RHINOCONJUNCTIVITIS; SALIVATION; SIDE EFFECT; URINE RETENTION; VEIN PUNCTURE;

ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT;

EID: 78049407936     PISSN: 11745878     EISSN: 11792019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11318900-000000000-00000     Document Type: Review

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