Pain in the Newborn

Evidence-Based Pediatrics and Child Health with CD-ROM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 509-521

  Shah, Vibhuti ^a   Ohlsson, Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Circumcision; Neonatal facial coding system (NFCS); Newborn infants; Pain; Topical anesthesia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955150256     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470987384.ch50     Document Type: Chapter

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