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Conservative management

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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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