Pain relief during common neonatal procedures: a survey
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- 1 November 2004
- journal article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal & Neonatal
- Vol. 89 (6) , F563
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2003.045351
Abstract
We sent a questionnaire to all Scottish hospitals, and units from the rest of the United Kingdom if they had 40 or more maternity beds (n = 96);1 the response rate was 85%. Analgesia was used in 82% of units for elective intubation, the commonest agent used being morphine (79%), followed by fentanyl. Analgesia was also used in 11% of the units for intravenous cannulation and in 10% for heelpricks. The analgesia most commonly used for cannulation was sucrose or dextrose. Some 5% of units stated that they used morphine for radial arterial lines but these infants were already ventilated and receiving morphine.Keywords
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