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## EPEATED INVASIVE PROCE- dures occur routinely in neonates who require intensive care, causing pain at a time when it is developmentally unexpected. 1 Neonates are more sensitive to pain than older infants, children, and adults, 2 and this hypersensitivity is exacerbated in preterm neonates. 3 Multiple lines of evidence suggest that repeated and prolonged pain exposure alters their subsequent pain processing, long-term development, and behavior. 4,5 It is essential, therefore, to prevent or treat pain in neonates. Numerous pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments can alleviate procedural pain in neonates. 6 As a consequence, national 7 and international 6 evidence-based guidelines have been issued for preventing or treating neonatal pain and its adverse consequences. The burden of procedural pain in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) has been reported in previous singlecenter studies [8][9][10][11] and a multicenter study. 12 The latter study was based on chart review and was not directly observational. Effective strategies to improve pain management in neonates require a better understanding of the epidemiology and management of procedural pain. We report epidemiol

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Author

Ricardo Carbajal

Publisher

American Medical Association (AMA)

Published

2008

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)