Resumen
Objectives: To describe how (i) risk of neurological impairment (NI) and (ii) procedure invasiveness influence health professionals' assessment and management of procedural pain in neonates in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Design: Prospective observational study. Setting: Three tertiary level NICUs in Canada. Participants: 114 neonates, 25-40 weeks gestational age (GA) undergoing painful procedures. Main Outcome Measures: Physical and behavioural pain indicators and pharmacological and nonpharmacological pain interventions. Results: 114 neonates at high (Cohort A, n = 35), moderate (Cohort B, n = 25) and low (Cohort C, n = 54) risk of NI were observed during 254 painful procedures performed by 147 health professionals. Physical pain indicators were used more frequently by health professionals to assess pain with Cohorts A and B than C (p < .05). Behavioural pain indicators were used similarly across Cohorts. Nonpharmacological interventions were implemented most frequently for pain management. Physical interventions were used with 84% of procedures across Cohorts; particularly for the most invasive procedures. Infants with the highest NI risk (Cohort A) received the most behavioural interventions (p < .05) irrespective of procedural invasiveness. Pharmacological interventions were implemented with 23.2% of procedures; Cohort B received pharmacological interventions most frequently (Cohort B > A, B > C, p < .05) and for increasingly invasive procedures (p < .05). Conclusions: Health professionals use multidimensional indicators to assess neonatal pain. Nonpharmacological interventions dominate pain management. NI risk status and procedure invasiveness are important contextual factors in neonatal pain assessment and management.
Idioma original | English |
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Páginas (desde-hasta) | 735-741 |
Número de páginas | 7 |
Publicación | European Journal of Pain |
Volumen | 14 |
N.º | 7 |
DOI | |
Estado | Published - ago. 2010 |
Publicado de forma externa | Sí |
Nota bibliográfica
Funding Information:This study was funded by a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research ( MCT 63143 ). Dr. Stevens is funded by the Signy Hildur Eaton Chair in Pediatric Nursing Research at The Hospital for Sick Children. Dr. Patrick McGrath is a Canada Research Chair in Pediatric Pain. Marilyn Ballantyne and Janet Yamada are supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health PhD Research Fellowships . We also wish to acknowledge Joseph Beyene, Lynn Breau, Carol Camfield, and Patricia McKeever, Co-Investigators on this study, the staff at The Hospital for Sick Children, IWK Health Centre and Mount Sinai Hospital and parents of participating infants for enabling us to perform the study. Thank you also to Kim Caddell, Janet Narciso, Lucy Celetti, Felice Pettolino, and Annie Singh for data collection; Jasmine Lamba, Alison Dickson, Tricia Kavanagh, and Christine Chan for coding and data entry.
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
PubMed: MeSH publication types
- Journal Article
- Multicenter Study
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't