Premature infants do feel pain from procedures: Physiological markers for neonate pain identified
Monday, July 2, 2012 - 13:01
in Psychology & Sociology
There was a time when a belief was widely held that premature neonates did not perceive pain. That, of course, has been refuted but measurements of neonate pain tend to rely on inexact measures, such as alertness and ability to react expressively to pain sensations. Researchers reported that there is a significant relationship between procedural pain and detectable oxidative stress in neonates.