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Sucrose analgesia for minor procedures in newborn infants
L D Masters-Harte1, S M Abdel-Rahman
1Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO 64108-4698, USA.
Objective:
To evaluate the role of intraoral sucrose and other sweet-tasting solutions for the management of pain associated with minor procedures in newborns.
Data Sources:
A search of MEDLINE articles from 1966 to August 1999 and an extensive review of journals was conducted. MeSH headings included analgesia, sucrose, and neonate.
Data Synthesis:
Newborn infants regularly undergo minor invasive procedures for which analgesics are not routinely used. Intraoral sucrose and other sweet-tasting solutions appear to diminish surrogate biomarkers of pain response as evidenced by a reduction in crying time, smaller increases in heart rate, and lower pain scale ratings.
Conclusions:
These studies appear to suggest that sucrose solution 0.5 g provides effective analgesia with no reported adverse effects.