Premature infants display discriminable behavioural, physiological and brain responses to noxious and non-noxious stimuli

Pain assessment in preterm infants is challenging, as behavioural, autonomic and neurophysiological measures of pain are reported to be less sensitive and specific than in term infants. Understanding the pattern of preterm infants noxious-evoked responses is vital to improve pain assessment in this group. This study investigated the discriminability and... Show more