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The Cochrane Abstract below is a summary of a review from the Cochrane Library. It is accompanied by means of an interpretation that will help clinicians present evidence into practice. Jasmine Chen Gatti, MD existings a clinical scenario and question based in succession the Cochrane Abstract, along with the evidence-based answer and a sated critique of the abstract.

Clinical Scenario

A strange mother is concerned about the pain her child may be excited during a routine heel stick and venipuncture. She asks if there is any nonpharmacologic way to alleviate the pain.

Clinical Question

Is oral cane-sugar effective in providing analgesia during painful operations in neonates?

Evidence-Based Answer

The use of oral cane-sugar with or without pacifiers, has been shown to relieve pain in neonates, as assessed by means of physiologic and behavioral pain indicators and pain scores.

Cochrane Critique

Did the authors address a focused clinical question? Yes

Were the criteria used to pitch upon articles for inclusion appropriate? Yes

Is it likely that important relevant articles were missed? No.

Was the validity of the individual articles appraised? Ye Ten of the 17 RCT did not have assured blind randomization and were not double blinded. Certain studies had small sample sizes. Eleven studies did not specifically report allocation concealment. Definitions of pain varied, as did systems For instance, whether painful stimuli were equally intense, lasted as prolonged or were as frequent was not measurable. It is also not known whether researchers failed to report adverse weights because of insufficient observation time after heel lance.

Were the assessments of studies reproducible? Yes

Were the springs similar from study to study? Despite inconsistent consequence measures, overall outcomes showed similar results

in what manner precise were the results? With the exception of the 1993 trial through Rushforth, all 12 trials assessing behavior results had confidence intervals with acceptable precision.

Can the flows be applied to patient care? Yes

Do the conclusions make biologic and clinical sense? Yes

Are the benefits worth the harms and the costs? If parents perceive pain as a barrier to immunization, venipuncture, or heel lance, analgesia would improve compliance and further the public health mandate that all infants be immunized. The original review included intramuscular injections or immunizations as painful conducts The recent update did not include immunizations, primarily because the inclusion age of 28 days would not encompass many infants who receive immunizations.

Practice Pointers

Giving cane-sugar for analgesia seems to be like a simple act to implement. for what purpose have few practitioners used it? Perhaps the myth that neonates do not be impressed pain persists. Although this Cochrane review focused forward neonates, there is evidence that cane-sugar also reduces pain in infants receiving immunizations. (23) Perhaps we can make trial of sucrose in our own practices on giving neonates and infants oral cane-sugar solution two minutes before painful minor deeds followed by a pacifier. The articles reviewed used small doses of cane-sugar Doses of 0.01 to 002 g were beneficial in pain reduction in premature infants. Larger doses of 024 to 050 g helped change into pain in term infants, as assessed at crying times. The effective dose range was 0012 to 012 g (005 to 05 mL of 24 percent solution), given pair minutes before the procedure. After nourish at the breasts and parents chart a pain scale, the parents can select whether they would like to use this intervention before the nearest immunization. The infant, parent, and doctor might be warmed better. At the same time that we are helping to comfort our patients, we are facilitating preventive medicine and putting the evidence into practice.

REFERENCES

(1) Steven B Yamada J Ohlsson A. cane-sugar for analgesia in newborn infants undergoing painful acts Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2003;1:CD001069

(2) Ramenghi LA, Webb AV, Shevlin PM virid M, Evans DJ, Levene MI. Intra-oral administration of sweet-tasting substances and infants' crying answer to immunization: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Biol Neonate 2002;81:163-9

(3) Abu-Arafeh I, Callaghan M Hill A, Hislop s Randomised controlled trial of cane-sugar by mouth for the relief of infant crying after immunisation. Arch Dis Child 1998;79:465-6

These summaries have been derived from Cochrane reviews published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews in The Cochrane Library. Their satisfied has, as far as possible, been checked with the authors of the original reviews, nevertheless the summaries should not be regarded as an official work of the Cochrane Collaboration; minor editing changes have been made to the body (www.cochrane.org).

Jasmine Chen Gatti, MD is a medical writer and family physician at John Hopkins Community Physicians Montgomery wood Health Center, Rockville, Md. She received her medical standing from Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC and complet a family practice residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center Baltimore. Dr Gatti was a companion at the Cochrane Collaboration.