Figure 2 The POINTS of Care to reduce ROP Pain control Procedures such as taking blood, setting up drips, or inserting a nasogastric tube are painful and can destabilise preterm babies. Painful procedures should be kept to a minimum, and pain can be reduced by giving the baby oral sucrose solution or a dummy (pacifi er) to suck on before the procedure. For very painful procedures, systemic anal...

BACKGROUND Pain associated with routine procedures in NICUs is often inadequately managed. Barriers to more appropriate pain management are nurses' and physicians' knowledge and the challenges of collaborative decision-making. Few studies describe the differing perceptions of procedural pain intensity among nurses and physicians in NICUs which could complicate common decision-making. This study...

The pain response in individual and is learned through social learning experience. Early experience may play a particularly important role shaping an individual’s responses. Behaviors that are commonly used to identify presence of facial expression, vocalization, posture, movement. Crying widely accepted as method communicating pain. Cry pattern, expression body movements behavior indication ch...

Background: The ideal therapy for hemorrhoids is always debated. For early grades of the disease, many different modalities of treatment have been proposed. Some are effective but are more painful, others are less painful but their efficacy is not assured on long term. Infrared photocoagulation has emerged as a new addition to the list. In this procedure, the tissue is coagulated by infrared ra...

purpose : ophthalmoplegia makes many physicians to refer the patients to neurologists and/or ophthalmologists for neuro-ophthalmic evaluation. ophthalmoplegia has different etiologies some of which may be very harmful and need urgent intervention. prevalence of the disease is not obvious. this study is designed to evaluate the various etiologies and their prevalence in this disorder. methods : ...

conclusions both tens and prf lumbar sympathectomy are promising pain relief treatments for painful dnp. however, prf lumbar sympathectomy seems to have a superior efficacy. further studies with a larger sample size and a longer follow-up period are needed. background painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (dpn) is a long-term complication of type 1 and type 2 diabetes that majorly impacts qual...