Convective burn from use of hairdryer for heel warming prior to the heel prick test - a case report

Convective burn from use of hairdryer for heel warming prior to the heel prick test - a case report

BACKGROUND Blood sampling through heel lancing is the most common invasive painful procedure performed on newborn infants. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a five day old infant who sustained burns to the left foot and leg after the mother's hairdryer was used by the midwife to warm the baby's heel prior to capillary blood sampling (CBS) with an automated device. CONCLUSION Heel warm...

Alleviation of the pain of heel prick in preterm infants.

The hypothesis that the variability of physiological parameters may indicate pain or stress in the neonate was examined. Four parameters (heart rate, respiratory rate, transcutaneous oxygen tension, and carbon dioxide tension) were examined over a 2 minute epoch in response to a heel prick in an attempt to measure stress/pain in 35 preterm newborn infants (26-34 weeks' gestation) half of whom w...

Can topical lignocaine reduce behavioural response to heel prick?

In a randomised, double blind, controlled study the ability of 5% lignocaine ointment to reduce the behavioural response to heel lance in 30 healthy neonates was assessed. Five per cent lignocaine ointment applied to the heel under an occlusive dressing for one hour before heel prick did not reduce the infants' behavioural response to the heel prick procedure.

A Rare Case of Bilateral Heel Sore Flap Cover

Foot Skin Ischemic Necrosis following Heel Prick in a Newborn

There are only a few reports on side effects after heel prick in neonates although heel prick has been performed all over the world for many years. The medicine staff had obtained only a drop of blood by pricking the baby's heel using a lancet without compressing the heel or foot to measure his blood glucose level 3 hours after birth. However he developed a severe and hemorrhagic skin reaction ...