Effective treatment of pain is an important objective of neonatal medicine. A frequently performed painful procedure during neonatal intensive care is blood sampling. The oral application of ...

Mariana Bueno, an Assistant Professor at the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, is the lead author of a recently published Cochrane review investigating the administration of sucrose as a form of ...

A new Cochrane review has found that sucrose can help with pain relief in newborn babies during common hospital procedures, such as venepuncture. This involves drawing blood with a needle, typically ...