Variability in Clinical Practice Guidelines for Sweetening Agents in Newborn Infants Undergoing Painful Procedures

Sucrose for analgesia in newborn infants undergoing painful procedures.

BACKGROUND Administration of oral sucrose with and without non-nutritive sucking is the most frequently studied non-pharmacological intervention for procedural pain relief in neonates. OBJECTIVES To determine the efficacy, effect of dose, method of administration and safety of sucrose for relieving procedural pain in neonates as assessed by validated composite pain scores, physiological pain ...

The Effect of LI14 Acupressure on Children Undergoing Painful Procedures and Infants’ Apgar score: An Overview

Background: Non-pharmacological methods of pain relief are widely used in some societies/places today. They are readily available, inexpensive and uncomplicated methods that have an acceptable efficacy. Acupressure is one of these methods which is a branch of acupuncture. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of LI14 acupressure on children a...

LSHSS Procedures for Using Clinical Practice Guidelines

Purpose: This article provides information about clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) to facilitate their application to the practice of speech-language pathology. CPGs are sets of recommendations based on evidence, including expert clinical opinion, that have been developed by a panel of reviewers. In this article, CPGs are defined and their components and rationale for use are discussed. A gui...

Pediatric Newborn Medicine Clinical Practice Guidelines

Pediatric Newborn Medicine Clinical Practice Guidelines