Infants born preterm are at a high risk for repeated pain exposure in early life. Despite valid
tools to assess pain in non-verbal infants and effective interventions to reduce pain …

Objective To develop evidence-based guidelines for preventing or treating neonatal pain
and its adverse consequences. Compared with older children and adults, neonates are …

Multiple lines of evidence suggest an increased sensitivity to pain in neonates. Repeated
and prolonged pain exposure may affect the subsequent development of pain systems, as …

Premature infants hospitalized after birth are exposed to repeated painful procedures as part
of their routine medical care. Early neonatal exposure to unmanaged pain has been linked …

Background The assessment and management of neonatal pain is crucial for the
development and wellbeing of vulnerable infants. Specifically, neonatal pain is associated …

Newborn infants experience acute pain with various medical procedures. Evidence
demonstrates that controlling pain in the newborn period is beneficial, improving …

Hospitalized newborn infants experience pain that can have negative short-and long-term
consequences and thus should be prevented and treated. National and international …

BACKGROUND The adequacy of pain management depends partly on the selection of a
reliable and valid pain measure. Scales to assess infant pain have been described in the …

The burden of pain in newborn infants has been investigated in numerous studies, but little
is known about the appropriateness of the use of pain scales according to the specific type …

This narrative review is based on a literature search of PubMed and PsycINFO for research
on preterm newborn pain published during the last ten years. The high prevalence of painful …