Infants subjected to painful stimuli respond with deleterious physiologic and metabolic
effects, behavioral changes, and potentially long term effects on painful stimuli processing …

Greenberg examines the efficacy of pacifiers and sugar, alone and in combination, for pain
management in neonates. Results indicate that offering a sugar-coated pacifier during …

Infants subjected to painful stimuli respond with deleterious physiologic and metabolic
effects, behavioral changes, and potentially long term effects on painful stimuli processing …

The administration of sucrose with and without non‐nutritive sucking (NNS) has been
examined for relieving procedural pain in newborn infants. The calming and pain‐relieving …

Neonatal nurses are often challenged to manage pain in infants experiencing painful
procedures such as heelsticks. The goal of pain management in infants is to minimize …

Oral sucrose is included in almost all recommendations for treatment of pain in newborns,
but evidence if multiple doses might be more effective than a single standard dose is …

Previous randomized trials of the analgesic effects of sucrose, glucose, and a pacifier in term
neonates have shown that the pacifier resulted in lower pain scores than glucose or …

OBJECTIVES: To test the comparative effectiveness of 2 nonpharmacologic pain-relieving
interventions administered alone or in combination across time for repeated heel sticks in …

Objective To compare the effectiveness of music, oral sucrose, and combination therapy for
pain relief in neonates undergoing a heel prick procedure. Study design This randomized …

Purpose: To identify effective non-pharmacological interventions in the literature regarding
Heel Stick Pain prevention and treatment in preterm neonates. Methods: A literature search …