Newborn infants' pain should be scored indirectly using dedicated pain scales. Unfortunately, while some scales for prolonged pain have given good results, a gold standard to assess acute pain does not exist. Acute pain scales still have weak points, most are complex and are scarcely used in neonatal departments. Moreover, carefully scoring pain in clinical practice seems redundant, because any avoidable pain is a concern. This suggests that researchers must find new ways to assess acute pain. A possible approach is to settle for pain detection instead of pain scoring in selected cases. Here, we describe a two-point method that illustrates this approach.

Bellieni, C.V., Tei, M., Buonocore, G. (2015). Should we assess pain in newborn infants using a scoring system or just a detection method?. ACTA PAEDIATRICA, 104(3), 221-224 [10.1111/apa.12882].

Should we assess pain in newborn infants using a scoring system or just a detection method?

TEI, MONICA;BUONOCORE, GIUSEPPE
2015-01-01

Abstract

Newborn infants' pain should be scored indirectly using dedicated pain scales. Unfortunately, while some scales for prolonged pain have given good results, a gold standard to assess acute pain does not exist. Acute pain scales still have weak points, most are complex and are scarcely used in neonatal departments. Moreover, carefully scoring pain in clinical practice seems redundant, because any avoidable pain is a concern. This suggests that researchers must find new ways to assess acute pain. A possible approach is to settle for pain detection instead of pain scoring in selected cases. Here, we describe a two-point method that illustrates this approach.
2015
Bellieni, C.V., Tei, M., Buonocore, G. (2015). Should we assess pain in newborn infants using a scoring system or just a detection method?. ACTA PAEDIATRICA, 104(3), 221-224 [10.1111/apa.12882].
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