Sucrose cuts neonate pain, but not in every procedure.(News)

Pediatric News | August 1, 2008| | Copyright

Sucrose is not recommended as an analgesic during heel lances for glucose monitoring in newborns of diabetic mothers, or during the newborn intramuscular injection of vitamin K, based on results from a study of 240 newborns of at least 36 weeks' gestation.

However, sucrose is recommended for reducing pain during venipuncture for the newborn screening test.

The lack of effective pain reduction during heel lancing or intramuscular injection contrasted with previous studies, but the results were strengthened by a post hoc analysis that showed no impact of ...

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