الفهرس 
Electroencephalography (EEG)Only 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
ABSTRACT
The aim of this study was to assess the effect of pain on vital data and QEEG (spectral power analysis) and whether non-nutritive suckling or sucrose suckling reduces pain during painful procedures in neonates.
We prospectively analyzed the EEG recordings done for 27 neurologically-free neonates admitted in Neonatal Intensive Care Units, Children’s Hospital, Ain Shams University Hospitals in the period between September 2015 and August 2016. Six of them were excluded due to infant crying and movements that contaminated the EEG analyses, so 21 neonates were included with meaningful EEG waves; 11 males and 10 females, 18 (85.7%) of them were full term while the reminder 3 (14.3%) were preterm above 35 weeks’ gestation. Their postnatal age was between 3 and 27 days old with a mean of 14.05 ± 7.32 days old. EEG recording, vital signs and infant pain scale were done before and after painful stimulation using heel prick during routine Glucocheck and compared with response of the same neonate to the same painful procedure during NNS and during suckling sucrose.