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Table 2 Pain control during Invasive procedure according to the Director’s responses (N = 153)

From: Current practices in neonatal pain management: a decade after the last Italian survey

Procedure

SIN Guidelines

Other written Guidelines

No Guidelines

Missing answer*

Heel Prick

108 (70.6%)

38 (24.8%)

7 (4.6%)

0

Venipuncture

105 (68.6%)

36 (23.6%)

12 (7.8%)

0

Arterial Puncture

98 (66.7%)

35 (23.8%)

14 (9.5%)

6

Intramuscular injection

80 (53.3%)

32 (21.3%)

38 (25.3%)

3

ECC positioning

86 (64.7%)

36 (27.1%)

11 (8.3%)

20

Tracheal Intubation

84 (59.6%)

43 (30.5%)

14 (9.9%)

12

Mechanical Ventilation

82 (65.1%)

32 (25.4%)

12 (9.5%)

27

Non-Invasive Ventilation

73 (50.3%)

31 (21.4%)

41 (28.3%)

8

Chest tube insertion

94 (68.8%)

36 (26.3%)

7 (5.1%)

16

Lumbar puncture

99 (67.8%)

40 (27.4%)

7 (4.8%)

7

ROP Screening

68 (49.6%)

46 (33.6%)

23 (16.8%)

16

Therapeutic Hypothermia

70 (64.8%)

27 (25.0%)

11 (10.2%)

45

Post-Operative pain control

58 (64.8%)

36 (33.3%)

14 (13.0%)

45

  1. *Percentages are calculated on non-missing values