NEONATAL PAIN

Overcome fetal pain to prevent risky brain consequences later in life Learn to assess pain in neonates and to overcome it with easy validated tools Read directly from the most prominent experts in the field the more recent news on fetal and neonatal pain This completely revised and updated edition offers a comprehensive overview of neonatal pain assessment and treatment. It includes the field of fetal surgery, and many other topics have been updated or added, such as circumcision analgesia, new drugs, new insights into neurophysiologic pathways of neonatal pain, and new drawbacks of analgesic drugs. While in the early years of the 21st-century pain treatment in neonates was still optional, it is now a tenet, and more and more institutions are looking for inspiration and good references to create their guidelines.