Health Care Professional’s Attitude Towards the Effective Management of Pain in the Critically Ill Neonate

Abstract

Introduction: Over the past 25 years, caregiver’s knowledge of pain in newborn infants has advanced from the beliefs that newborn infants do not feel pain, to the knowledge that preterm infants experience more pain compare to older children and adults. However, caregivers know that pain exists in this population and research has supported that pain continues to be untreated up to 65% of the time.

Keywords

• pain management
• health care professional’s knowledge
• neonates