Pain in newborns: a descriptive study about assessment and non-pharmacological treatment at a NICU
Introduction: According to contemporary knowledge about pain, every painful stimulus is generated, transmitted and interpreted in the same way for newborns and adults. Newborns have all the anatomical, functional and neurochemical elements necessary to nociception. Nevertheless, the manifestation an...
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Universidade Federal Fluminense, Escola de Enfermagem Aurora de Afonso Costa
2006-08-01
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| Series: | Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing |
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| Online Access: | http://www.objnursing.uff.br/index.php/nursing/article/view/337 |