Sucrose likely relieves pain in newborns during and after venepuncture, a 2026 systematic review has found. Read more.

Effective treatment of pain is an important objective of neonatal medicine. A frequently performed painful procedure during neonatal intensive care is blood sampling. The oral application of ...

Giving sucrose, a sugary liquid, to infants is an effective way to manage pain in babies in the neonatal intensive care unit ...

Mariana Bueno, an Assistant Professor at the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, is the lead author of a recently published Cochrane review investigating the administration of sucrose as a form of ...

Background and aims: In term neonates venepuncture is considered less painful than heel lance for blood sampling. Here, we compared the effects of venepuncture and heel lance blood sampling in preterm ...

Patients who are given a local anesthetic before inserting a cannula into the vein have reduced sensation of pain when larger gauge cannulas are used. Compared with intradermal lidocaine infusion, the ...

Patients who are given a local anesthetic before having a venous cannula inserted have a clearly reduced sensation of pain when larger gauge cannulas are used. Compared with intradermal lidocaine ...