Sugaring the pill.

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Published: January 1996

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Sugaring the pill: ethics and uncertainties in the use of sucrose for newborn infants.

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The Robinson Institute, Discipline of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.

Sucrose is widely used for the management of procedural pain in newborn infants, including capillary blood sampling, venepuncture, and vascular cannulation. Multiple randomized controlled trials have demonstrated that sweet-tasting solutions reduce behavioral responses to acute painful stimuli. It has been claimed that sucrose should be a standard of care in neonatal units and that further placebo-controlled trials of sucrose are unnecessary and unethical.

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