Treating Pain in Preterm Infants: Moving from Opioids to Acetaminophen

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC; Department of Paediatric Pharmacology, University of Basel Children's Hospital, Basel, Switzerland; Intensive Care and Department of Pediatric Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: jvandena@cnmc.org.
² Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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John N van den Anker et al. J Pediatr. 2016 Jan.

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. 2016 Jan:168:13-15.

doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2015.09.061. Epub 2015 Oct 17.

¹ Division of Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC; Department of Paediatric Pharmacology, University of Basel Children's Hospital, Basel, Switzerland; Intensive Care and Department of Pediatric Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: jvandena@cnmc.org.
² Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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