According to research, only about a quarter of larger maternity units in Autralia use Pain relief for painful procedures such as blood taking or making injections to newborn babies.
A group of neonatologists - Peter Gray and his colleagues examined 212 Australian hospitals in which 200 or more babies a year are delivered about their knowledge and use of techniques that bring pain-relief for minor procedures in infants born at term or near term.
Dr Gray of Mater Mother’s Hospital in Brisbane declared that inspite of good evidence that giving infants a breast milk or a sucrose (a sugar solution) during procedures could lessen or deaden the pain, they were not commonly used in Australian hospitals.
“We were surprised, given the wealth of i View the rest of this article
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