introduction: certain painful, invasive procedures are necessary for care, and are commonly performed in both healthly and sick neonates. current evidence shows that the newborn infant has both physiologic and anatomic capacity to experience pain. recent research suggests that pain experienced in the neonatal period might have long-term effects later in life. previous research has shown that or...

AIM To compare the effectiveness of EMLA cream and Ametop gel in providing analgesia for venous cannulation. METHODS Single blind study in 120 children. RESULTS Both anaesthetic agents produced adequate analgesia. However, Ametop gel was more effective, with a statistically significant difference in the pain scores of the two groups (p < 0.05).

Background. Untreated immunization pain causes undue distress and contributes to underimmunization through physician, and possibly parental, resistance to multiple simultaneous injections. Objective. To compare the efficacies of two pain management methods in reducing immediate immunization injection pain and distress in school-aged children. Design. A randomized, controlled clinical trial of e...

PURPOSE Transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy is the procedure of choice for diagnosing prostate cancer. We compared with pain-relieving effect of acetaminophen, a known drug for enhancing the pain-relieving effect of tramadol, and eutectic mixture of local anesthetics (EMLA), a local anesthetic agent, with that of the conventional periprostatic nerve block method. MATERIALS AND METHO...

BACKGROUND A variety of topical anesthetic compounds are available for use prior to minimally or moderately painful cutaneous laser procedures. A novel lidocaine/tetracaine-based peel has recently been developed that is applied to the skin as a cream and, once air dried, is removed as a flexible film that may prove useful in providing adequate dermal anesthesia for dermatologic laser surgery. ...

Foreign bodies in the external auditory canal may cause otalgia, and live insects have been reported among the causes. A number of methods have been used to immobilize the live insects. In our manuscript, we describe immobilization of an insect and provision of analgesia using EMLA cream.