BookGiuseppe Buonocore, Carlo Valerio Bellieni, editors.
Contents:
PART I Delivery and Pain
Gonadal Hormones and Pain Modulation
Stress and Pregnancy: CRF as Biochemical Marker
Pain Control During Labour
PART II Fetal Pain
Ultrasound and Fetal Stress: Study of the Fetal Blink-Startle Reflex Evoked by Acoustic Stimuli
Prenatal Affective Exchanges and Their Subsequent Effects in Postnatal Life
Pain in the Fetus
New Insights into Prenatal Stress: Immediate and Long-Term Effects on the Fetus and Their Timing
PART III Neonatal Pain
Pain Assessment and Spectral Analysis of Neonatal Crying
Analgesic Procedures in Newborns
Nonpharmacological Treatment of Neonatal Pain
Sensory Saturation: An Analgesic Method
Pharmacologic Analgesia in the Newborn
Physical Stress Risk Agents in Incubators
Fetal surgery analgesia
PART IV Pain: a Risk Factor for Brain Damage
Neonatal Stressors
New Insights into Neonatal Hypersensitivity
From the Gate-Control Theory to Brain Programs for Neonatal Pain
PART V Pain and Communication
Disclosure of Pathology to the Newborn's Family
Communication of Diagnosis: Pain and Grief in the Experience of Parents of Children with a Congenital Malformation
Invest in Prenatal Life: A High-Yield Stock.