Clonidine for pain in non-ventilated infants.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Critically ill newborn infants undergo a variety of painful procedures or experience a variety of painful conditions during their early life in the neonatal unit. In the critically ill paediatric and neonatal population, clonidine is prescribed as an adjunct to opioids or benzodiazepines aiming to reduce the doses of these drugs that are required for analgesia or sedation, or to facilitate weaning from mechanical ventilation. It has been shown that clonidine premedication might have a positive effect on postoperative pain in children.

Objectives

To assess the benefit and harms of clonidine for the prevention or treatment of procedural pain; postoperative pain; or pain associated with clinical conditions in non-ventilated neonates.

Search methods

We used the

SUBMITTER: Romantsik O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7143321 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature