São Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Validity of behavioral and physiologic parameters for acute pain assessment of term newborn infants.
The subjectivity of pain causes enormous difficulties in evaluating neonatal pain with a single, practical and easy-to-apply tool. Pain evaluation in the neonatal period should be performed by valid, safe, useful and feasible methods. ⋯ NFCS and NIPS are suitable instruments for neonatal pain evaluation. Heart rate and O2 saturation can be used only as auxiliary methods.