• Acta paediatrica · Aug 2017

    Multicenter Study

    Assessment of continuous pain in newborns admitted to NICUs in 18 European countries.

    • Anand Kanwaljeet J S KJS Departments of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA., Mats Eriksson, Elaine M Boyle, Alejandro Avila-Alvarez, Randi Dovland Andersen, Kosmas Sarafidis, Tarja Polkki, Cristina Matos, Paola Lago, Thalia Papadouri, Simon Attard-Montalto, Mari-Liis Ilmoja, Sinno Simons, Rasa Tameliene, Bart van Overmeire, Angelika Berger, Anna Dobrzanska, Michael Schroth, Lena Bergqvist, Emilie Courtois, Jessica Rousseau, Ricardo Carbajal, and EUROPAIN survey working group of the NeoOpioid Consortium.
    • Departments of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
    • Acta Paediatr. 2017 Aug 1; 106 (8): 1248-1259.

    AimContinuous pain occurs routinely, even after invasive procedures, or inflammation and surgery, but clinical practices associated with assessments of continuous pain remain unknown.MethodsA prospective cohort study in 243 neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) from 18 European countries recorded the frequency of pain assessments, use of mechanical ventilation, sedation, analgesia or neuromuscular blockade for each neonate for up to 28 days after NICU admission.ResultsOnly 2113 of 6648 (31.8%) of neonates received assessments of continuous pain, occurring variably among tracheal ventilation (TrV, 46.0%), noninvasive ventilation (NiV, 35.0%) and no ventilation (NoV, 20.1%) groups (p < 0.001). Daily assessments for continuous pain occurred in only 10.4% of all neonates (TrV: 14.0%, NiV: 10.7%, NoV: 7.6%; p < 0.001). More frequent assessments of continuous pain occurred in NICUs with pain guidelines, nursing champions and surgical admissions (all p < 0.01), and for newborns <32 weeks gestational age, those requiring ventilation, or opioids, sedatives-hypnotics, general anaesthetics (O-SH-GA) (all p < 0.001), or surgery (p = 0.028). Use of O-SH-GA drugs increased the odds for pain assessment in the TrV (OR:1.60, p < 0.001) and NiV groups (OR:1.40, p < 0.001).ConclusionAssessments of continuous pain occurred in less than one-third of NICU admissions and daily in only 10% of neonates. NICU clinical practices should consider including routine assessments of continuous pain in newborns.©2017 Foundation Acta Paediatrica. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…