The pain of heel prick and its measurement in preterm infants

Abstract
Alcohol swab cleansing and squeezing). This dummy procedure itself caused some increase in variability although this was not significant at the 5% level. There were similar significant increases in variability of the respiratory rate and O2 and CO2 tensions in the blood (P < 0.05) during the stab procedure. ∗Correspondence to: M. McIntosh, Dept. of Child Life and Health, University of Edinburgh, 17 Hatton Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1UW, UK. Submitted November 12, 1991; revised and accepted August 21, 1992. © Lippincott-Raven Publishers....