SAN FRANCISCO — Use of a functional scoring system dramatically reduced morphine treatment and length of stay among infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) compared with the widely used ...

Although morphine is the drug almost exclusively used for neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), emerging data suggest that buprenorphine may be an acceptable and perhaps safer alternative. The two ...

The NAS score sheet — called the Finnegan scale — lists 21 symptoms most frequently observed in opiate-exposed infants. Each symptom and its degree of severity is assigned a score and totaled — higher ...

A quality improvement (QI) initiative that focused on using non-pharmacologic approaches to care for infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) yielded positive short-term outcomes for both the ...

Opioid-exposed infants display a wide and variable range of dysregulated neurobehavioral functioning, but the regulatory difficulties experienced by these infants outside the defined clusters of ...

In the United States, one infant is born every 15 minutes with withdrawal symptoms after being exposed to opioids before birth, according to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics. And from ...

UVM Children's Hospital is using "smart bassinets" to improve care for opioid-exposed newborns. A study showed these bassinets reduced NICU stays by over 17% and improved sleep scores by over 41%. The ...