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Analgesic Procedures in Newborns

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Neonatal Pain

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Psychological stress is as important as physical stress. Chronic maternal stress in pregnancy stress has been shown to affect fetuses, being associated with premature birth, birth complications or breast-feeding problems in babies whose mothers were unbalanced or had major psychoaffective disorders. Pain control is possible with several methods, e.g. environmental measures, non-pharmacological measures, local pharmacological measures and systemic analgesia.

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  1. Department of Emergency, Section of Anesthesia, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese, Policlinico “S.Maria alle Scotte”, Siena, Italy

    Laura Giuntini & Cristina Navarra

  2. Deparment of Medical Science Surgery and Neuroscience, Section of Pediatric Surgery, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

    Rossella Angotti & Giovanna Amato

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    Giuseppe Buonocore

  2. Department of Pediatrics, University of Siena Department of Pediatrics, Siena, Italy

    Carlo Valerio Bellieni

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Giuntini, L., Navarra, C., Angotti, R., Amato, G. (2017). Analgesic Procedures in Newborns. In: Buonocore, G., Bellieni, C.V. (eds) Neonatal Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53232-5_11

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