backgroundthe absence of pain relief in infants can lead to harmful effects; so, this study aimed to investigate the effect of local heat on the pain of vitamin k injection in the infants.materials and methodsthis randomized clinical trial was conducted on 80 healthy infants. for the control group, 1 mg vitamin k was injected into the vastus lateralis muscle by a nurse. in the 3 intervention gr...

Background & aim: Neonatal resuscitation training is mandatory for the staff providing maternity and neonatal services in order to ensure competence during the academic period. This study was conducted to assess the neonatal resuscitation skills of nursing and midwifery students. Methods:In this study, the skills of 48 nursing and midwifery students  were assessed, using Objective Structured C...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of treating the pain among newborn infants associated with a medical procedure with sucrose with regard to overall physiological and behavioral stability. METHODS 103 newborn infants were enrolled in this study. The control group (n=63) did not receive any treatment. The experimental group (n=40) received 2 mL of 24% sucrose solution ...

objective: evaluating the effect of vegetable oil, as a supplement to breast milk in increase the weight gaining of vlbw neonates. materials and methods: in this single blind; randomized clinical trials , in nicu of vali-asr hospital, tehran university of medical sciences, 2005-2006;a total of 48 vlbw neonates referred & admitted to nicu, who did not have any major gi (especially nec), respirat...

introduction : 99% of 4million neonatal mortality occur in developing countries every year. mortality rate of newborns accounts for 18.3 per 1000 live birth that comprised 69% of imr and 56% of under 5 mortality in iran. a  comparison of statistical trend between infant and newborn rate from 1988 to 2001 revealed a considerable decrease in imr but slightly decrease in nmr. training postnatal mo...

CONTEXT The subjectivity of pain causes enormous difficulties in evaluating neonatal pain with a single, practical and easy-to-apply tool. Pain evaluation in the neonatal period should be performed by valid, safe, useful and feasible methods. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the validity of the Neonatal Facial Coding System (NFCS), Neonatal Infant Pain Scale (NIPS), heart rate (HR) and O2 saturation (O2...

Assessing pain in neonates is a challenging problem. Neonates cannot describe their pain experiences but must rely exclusively on the judgments of others. Studies demonstrate, however, that proper diagnosis of pain is impeded by observer bias. It has therefore been recommended that neonatal pain assessment instruments include evaluations that have bypassed an observer. In this chapter, we descr...