Can we use methadone for analgesia in neonates?

Can we use methadone for analgesia in neonates?

The use of methadone analgesia is undergoing a revival in the field of pain management with doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals realising its potential advantages over other commonly used opioid analgesics. The eYcacy of methadone analgesia is well documented in adults, but limited information is available about the use of methadone in younger patients, particularly neonates. Pa...

Methadone produces prolonged postoperative analgesia.

Hyperphagia in neonates withdrawing from methadone.

AIMS To examine whether hyperphagia is a clinically significant problem in infants born to women receiving methadone maintenance. METHODS The volume of feeds, changes in infant body weight, as well as occurrence of adverse clinical effects in infants withdrawing from methadone were studied during the first month of life. A retrospective chart review was conducted for all infants at San Franci...

Early discharge of term neonates: we can do it safely

Discharge of the term newborn is a critical issue in perinatal care. The average length of stay of the motherinfant dyad after delivery declined steadily from 1970 until the mid-1990s (early discharge ≤ 48 hours, very early discharge ≤ 24 hours after birth) [1]. Several subsequent studies [2-5] have reported that too short a hospital stay can place an infant at risk for significant jaundice, fe...

Can We Use Trust in Online Dating?

Trust models have been used widely in the literature in a number of different contexts. We examine an emotive scenario where trust would be extremely useful: online dating. We explore the use of a semiring-based trust model with online dating in a social network. Introductions are facilitated by friend-of-a-friend connections in the network in a manner similar to some real world scenarios. We s...