Open A1 pulley release is a standard surgical procedure for treatment of trigger finger. The disadvantages of the open technique include injury to the soft tissue, developing a painful palmar scar and patients requiring an extended recovery timethesince the procedure is more complex. Another technique used for treatment of trigger finger is percutaneous release. This technique offers the benefi...

OBJECTIVE To compare the pain relief effect of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) and Expressed Breast Milk (EBM) on the pain associated with adhesive tape removal in very low birth weight (VLBW) neonates. DESIGN Randomized Controlled Trial. SETTING Neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS 15 VLBW neonates who needed adhesive tape removal for the first part ...

895 Intravesical passive delivery of botulinum A toxin in patients affected by painful bladder syndrome: A pilot study. A. Giannantoni, E. Costantini, S.M. Di Stasi, E. Mearini, F. Santaniello, A. Vianello, M. Porena. In this study, Botox A was administered intravesically as an instillation, not by injection. Unfortunately, due to the molecular weight, botox A could not penetrate intact epithel...

Hypnosis is the main hallmark of the anesthesia for surgery and any other noxious procedure done in a hospital setting. The level of hypnosis is determined by the extent of noxious stimulation and the availability of supplementation with local/regional anesthesia. The level of anesthesia that prevents the patients from moving in response to the painful stimuli is universally achieved by general...

Professionals discuss accompanying mothers' participation during painful procedures as a possibility of care to mother and child, but there is no consensus on this subject. To contribute to this topic, this study addresses the child's needs during venipuncture in a hospital environment and the mother's participation in this procedure, based on authors from psychoanalysis and mother-child bonding.

OBJECTIVES Inferring the pain level of a critically ill infant is complex. The ability to accurately extract the appropriate pain cues from observations is often jeopardized when heavy sedation and muscular blocking agents are administered. Near-infrared spectroscopy is a noninvasive method that may provide the bridge between behavioral observational indicators and cortical pain processing. We ...

Percutaneous vertebroplasty is a minimally invasive procedure in which polymethylmethacrylate polymer is used to treat painful diseased vertebral bodies. However, despite its minimally invasive nature and relative safety, cement leakage beyond involved vertebral bodies into the venous system can induce devastating cardiovascular complications. Here, the authors report a case of multiple cardiac...

Lower nasal swab and higher nasopharyngeal aspirate samples were compared for RSV immunofluorescence and pain score in infants hospitalised with acute bronchiolitis. The nasal swab procedure was significantly less painful but was negative in approximately one third of RSV positive cases.

The concordance of nasal compared with nasopharyngeal swabs was assessed for the diagnosis of respiratory viral infections, and the degree of discomfort associated with each procedure was compared. The use of nasal swabs was shown to be as accurate but significantly less painful than nasopharyngeal swabs for virus diagnosis.

Hyperbilirubinemia is one of the most frequently encountered problem in neonates. Hence, serum bilirubin is the most commonly ordered laboratory investigation in the nursery. Sampling of newborns is not only a painful procedure but also occasionally associated with severe sepsis(l). Yamanuchi et al. first described a noninvasive device, the jaundicemeter to estimate the serum bilirubin transcut...