PAT SCORE - the tool for assessing pain intensity in newborn

The newborn's pain is often recognized incompetently and what worse even ignored. Pain is part of the body's defense system and alert the organism to possible danger. Human fetuses are capable of feeling pain since 20 weeks of gestation age. The consequences of untreated pain have an effec...

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Main Authors: Natalia Alicja Świątoniowska, Agnieszka Maj, Anna Rozensztrauch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Kazimierz Wielki University 2017-05-01
Series:Journal of Education, Health and Sport
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Online Access:http://www.ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/4481