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Main Menu Home MCQ EMQ Cases Books News News Feeds Guidelines What is Paediatrics? Links Search Contact Us About News from JuniorDr.com Think you have the flu? Time to ask Google Medical Report - James Bond 007 The Killer Net - pro-suicide websites Conscientious objection should be right, say med students Repatriation medicine The Business of Surgery GP consultations increasingly more intense and complex Doctor migration to developed nations costs sub-Saharan Africa billions of dollars GMC cuts fees for all doctors BMA: UKFPO must ?get a grip? on jobs for newly qualified doctors Newsflash RCPCH offers free membership to medical students. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) is responsible for the training and examination of paediatricians in the UK and most paediatricians in the UK are members of the college. The RCPCH is now offering free affiliate membership to medical students. Read more...   Sweet solutions reduce pain from immunisations. A meta-analysis by Harrison et al. shows that solutions of sucrose and glucose reduce the incidence and duration of crying associated with immunisations in children aged 1 month to 12 months. Administration of sucrose (and glucose) solutions to neonates undergoing painful procedures such as heel-prick blood testing is widely recommended as there is an abundance of evidence demonstrating its efficacy at reducing pain. However, the evidence base about the use of such solutions in children beyond the neonatal period is sparse and sometimes contradictory. The paper by Harrison et al. in Archives of Disease in Childhood provides robust evidence that sweet solutions also reduce the signs of pain in children aged 1 - 12 months having immunisation.   < Prev   Next > [ Back ]

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