Paliatívna medicína a liečba bolesti 1/2009
Neonatal pain
An increasing number of reviews and studies concentring neonatal pain have been published in recent years. Despite this, medical practise does not seem to reflect the publication of new scientific concept in the field in question. This review is intended to adress the far-reaching negative physical and psychological sequelae of inadequate neonatal pain control (based on the current understanding of the development of pain perception) in children. The importance of diagnostic pain as well as the methods of pain measurement in neonates.
Keywords: neonatal pain, praemature neonates, development of pain, pain assessment, treatment.
