Reduced Infant Response To A Routine Care Procedure After Glucose 25% Analgesia

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2011-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Glucose has analgesic and calming effects in newborns. To date, it is not known whether the beneficial effects extend to care giving procedures that are performed after painful procedures. The investigators objective is to determine the effect of glucose 25% analgesia for procedural pain on infant pain responses during a subsequent care giving procedure.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: The Baruch Padeh Medical Center, Poriya

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Full term above 37 weeks gestation.

• Normal birth-weight, healthy infants

• Males and Females

• Whose parents have signed the informed consent form

Exclusion Criteria:

• Premature born below 37 weeks

• Chromosomal abnormalities or congenital malformation.

• Suffering neurological imbalance

• Inability of oral feeding