[Pain management in newborn infants].

Even new-born babies require adequate medication for painful surgery. It is not known whether they experience suffering in the same way, but physiological changes show that newborn, even premature, babies feel pain. It is incumbent on the doctor to identify the situations which may cause pain and treat the child. Inasmuch as the pharmacokinetics of drugs is more individual and diverse in neonates than in older children the probability of side-effects must be borne in mind.