Oral sucrose can produce significant pain relief in pre-term infants undergoing repeated painful procedures during their intensive care unit stay, suggests study. Pre-term infant refers to an infant ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare the efficacy of combined sucrose and non-nutritive sucking (NNS) for analgesia in newborn infants undergoing heel-stick procedures. Baseline ...

Dynamic light scattering (DLS) microrheology utilizes dynamic light scattering to conduct measurements of the mean square displacements (MSD) of added inert tracer particles in a solution environment ...

A new mother is concerned about the pain her child may feel during a routine heel stick and venipuncture. She asks if there is any nonpharmacologic way to alleviate the pain. The use of oral sucrose, ...