Pain In Newborns And Nonpharmacologic Treatment Procedures

To inform the doctors and nurses working in intensive care units about the pain in newborns, its effects on neonatal development, and the use of nonpharmacological methods for effective pain management. Newborns are challenged by several painful stimuli because of diagnostic and therapeutic preoperative invasive procedures, surgical trauma, and postoperative invasive procedures in the neonatal intensive care units. These babies face physiologic, psychological, and metabolic consequences because of pain. Pharmacologic and nonpharmacological methods are regarded as complementary in effective pain management. Studies showed that nonpharmacologic methods themselves are not only effective in management of pain resulting from invasive procedures but they also increase the effectiveness of medical therapy when used in combination.