This completely revised and updated edition offers a comprehensive overview of neonatal pain assessment and treatment. It includes the field of fetal surgery, and many other topics have been updated or added, such as circumcision analgesia, new drugs, new insights into neurophysiologic pathways of neonatal pain and new drawbacks of analgesic drugs. While in the early years of the 21st century pain treatment in neonates was still optional, it is now a tenet, and more and more institutions are looking for inspiration and good references to create their own guidelines. Written by leading researchers in the field, this book provides that inspiration and offers a valuable tool for neonatologists, anesthetists, nurses and physiotherapists. Since it also deals with prenatal and postnatal surgery, it also appeals to surgeons.
First book dealing with fetal pain and its consequences and with pain in premature babies
International renowned authors contribute to the evaluation of fetal and neonatal pain from different points of view
Evaluation of neonatal and fetal pain from various points of view - pediatric, neurologic, gynecological, anesthesiological - and of possible consequences (including psychological ones) for the brain
Giuseppe Buonocore
perinatal care fetal stress prenatal stress fetal pain suffering psychopharmacology