Twelve years ago, the paper ‘Oral sucrose for pain management in infants: Myths and misconceptions’ was published Journal of Neonatal Nursing. At this time, eight myths or misconceptions were addressed. Since time there has been more than 100 studies reporting on analgesic effects sweet solutions newborns, which have synthesised included systematic reviews. There also a growth literature to sup...

Testicular torsion is a rare medical condition among neonates. Main symptoms are swelling, erythema and pain of the scrotum. It can be both perinatal (diagnosed at birth) postnatal after birth to 28 days life). If not treated, atrophy involving and/or contra lateral testis developed. Still being main treatment option surgery, new researches suggest delayed surgery in because low rates salvaging...

BACKGROUND Obstetrics carries high medical liability risk. Maternal death and newborn death/brain damage were the most common complications in obstetric anesthesia malpractice claims before 1990. As the liability profile may have changed over the past two decades, the authors reviewed recent obstetric claims in the American Society of Anesthesiologists Closed Claims database. METHODS Obstetri...

Carnitine is necessary for transport of long-chain fatty acids into mitochondria, to enter the beta-oxidation cycle. Four carnitine cycle defects have been described. The carnitine transporter mediates carnitine transport across the plasma membrane. Symptoms include hypoketotic hypoglycaemia and cardiomyopathy. Some affected subjects are asymptomatic. Newborn screening detects very low levels o...

Neonatal care is advancing to levels where more neonates are now offered more invasive interventions, exposing them to more prolonged hospital care. Consequently, the provision of effective and consistent management of pain in these neonates has become a pressing challenge. Advances in neonatal care have not only increased the number of neonates, who are exposed to noxious stimuli, but, over re...

Childbirth pain is one of the most painful experiences of a mother's life. In this review we investigate the association between childbirth pain and postpartum depression. It is well documented that postpartum depression is an increasing concern which affects not only the mother but can impact the newborn's development. Multiple factors seem to contribute to the likelihood of this depression de...

A framework for defining pain terms such as acute, persistent, prolonged or chronic pain to newborns was derived from the scientific literature on neonatal pain assessments, previous attempts to define chronic pain and the clinical and neurophysiological features of neonatal pain. This novel framework incorporates the temporal features, localising characteristics, and secondary effects of the p...

We report a newborn infant with psoas abscess caused by methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus. He was referred to our hospital with a history of hospital admission for hip septic arthritis without clinical improvement, and presented limited left hip motion, swelling on the groin and pain. A magnetic resonance imaging study revealed an abscess of the left psoas muscle. Surgical drainage an...

Traditionally, intubation of newborn infants was done without sedation or muscle relaxation. This practice reflected uncertainty about the effects of these drugs in babies. Over recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the pain and physiological stress that cold intubation places on a baby and so it has become a less common practice. Despite this, there is still much we don't know ab...