New research on pain relief in babies starting soon

Published on Tuesday, 26 January 2016 Post

Infant pain has both immediate and long-term negative consequences, yet in clinical practice it is often under-treated and very few pain-relieving drugs have been tested in babies. The Poppi Trial has been designed to test whether morphine can provide effective pain relief in babies during invasive medical procedures. Led by Dr Rebeccah Slater in collaboration with the NPEU and the Paediatric and Infant Pain & Anaesthesia (PiPA) group, the trial is due to start recruitment at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford in Spring 2016. Read the summary protocol published in the Lancet for more information.