Pilot Study of Sucrose to Reduce Pain in Sick Babies
Status:
Terminated
Trial end date:
2016-09-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Small amounts of sweet tasting sugar water reduces pain in babies during painful blood tests
and injections. The investigators do not know if sugar also reduces pain in babies already
receiving a continuous infusion of opioid analgesics. This project will help determine if
small amounts of sugar water reduce pain in babies already receiving a continuous infusion of
opioid analgesic during a heel lance procedure or nasogastric/orogastric (NG/OG) tube
insertions. The investigators hypothesize that infants who are receiving opioid analgesics
will have lower pain scores during their blood tests (heel lance) or NG/OG tube insertion,
when sucrose is given, compared to when water is given.