Conservative management
The need for analgesia in the infant can be reduced by practical measures to reduce distress:
- contact of infant with parents as often as possible
- regular feeding
- nursing in a warm, quiet environment
- preplanning, e.g. instituting regional postoperative blocks during perioperative general anaesthesia
- ensuring all necessary investigations and procedures are carried out at the same time
- sampling of blood from indwelling catheters, rather than repeated venesection
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