Anales de pediatría : publicación oficial de la Asociación Española de Pediatría (A.E.P.)
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December 2008
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study
[Analgesia when taking heel-lance blood in the newborn].
To evaluate the pain in healthy newborns requiring blood test by a heel-prick procedure and compare different pain management methods. ⋯ The blood test by heel lance represents a painful procedure of moderate intensity capable of analgesic treatment. A proper nursing method, along with a complement of non-nutritive sucking during extraction, significantly decreases the discomfort and crying, it being unnecessary to consider other analgesics.