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A Brain-Derived Approach to the Measurement of Pain in Infants
- Speaker: Rebeccah Slater , BSc, MSc, PhD, Professor
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- Duration: 60 Mins
- Credits: 1 CERP, 1 Nursing CEU, 1 CME
Abstract:
Pain is experienced by all people regardless of age, gender or ethnicity, and access to pain treatment is a basic human right. Nevertheless, measuring and treating pain in newborn infants is difficult. This is because babies cannot tell us when they are in pain and cannot tell us whether pain-relieving medications are working. So, in clinical practice we often rely on behaviours – such as changes in facial expression, when we attempt to measure and treat pain. However, sometimes a newborn child who is hungry, tired, irritable or in pain shows similar facial expression and body movements – making it difficult to decide how best to treat them. Since pain is an experience that occurs in the brain, one approach that can help us better understand infant pain is to look at patterns of brain activity. In this talk I will tell you how measuring pain-related brain activity in infants can help us find new ways to measure and treat pain in young children, and how pain-related brain additivity changes in early development.
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A Brain-Derived Approach to the Measurement of Pain in Infants
Pain is experienced by all people regardless of age, gender or ethnicity, and access to pain treatment is a basic human right. Nevertheless, measuring and treating pain in newborn infants is difficult. This is because babies cannot tell us when they are in pain and cannot tell us whether pain-relieving medications are working. So, in clinical practice we often rely on behaviours – such as changes in facial expression, when we attempt to measure and treat pain. However, sometimes a newborn child who is hungry, tired, irritable or in pain shows similar facial expression and body movements – making it difficult to decide how best to treat them. Since pain is an experience that occurs in the brain, one approach that can help us better understand infant pain is to look at patterns of brain activity. In this talk I will tell you how measuring pain-related brain activity in infants can help us find new ways to measure and treat pain in young children, and how pain-related brain additivity changes in early development.
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