PAIN AND EFFICIENCY IN NEONATAL BLOOD SAMPLE SCREENINGS - New Devices for Reducing Pain and Improving Blood Sample Quality

Bruno Wacogne, Christian Pieralli, Gonzalo Cabodevila, Nolwenn Baron, Sandrine Marioli, Lionel Pazart

2009

Abstract

Neonatal blood sample screening is recognised as a difficult gesture and painful to the newborns. The number of detected diseases is still relatively low and depends on the country where it is performed. There is a real need for new techniques that reduce pain, facilitate the blood sampling, increase the quantity of sampled blood and improve the collection of blood of the cardboard blotter actually used. In this paper, we present systems that are currently developed in Besançon (France) in collaboration between the FEMTO-ST Institute and the University Hospital. They mainly concern micro-needles arrays and pressure free blood sampling devices. The choice of these systems has been dictated by a study of the pain that newborns feel during the gesture. The ulterior motive of this work is to improve neonatal blood sample screenings and therefore, to increase the number of screened diseases and try to generalise this technique to places where it is not yet done.

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Wacogne B., Pieralli C., Cabodevila G., Baron N., Marioli S. and Pazart L. (2009). PAIN AND EFFICIENCY IN NEONATAL BLOOD SAMPLE SCREENINGS - New Devices for Reducing Pain and Improving Blood Sample Quality . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111- 64-7, pages 290-295. DOI: 10.5220/0001776902900295


in Bibtex Style

@conference{biodevices09,
author={Bruno Wacogne and Christian Pieralli and Gonzalo Cabodevila and Nolwenn Baron and Sandrine Marioli and Lionel Pazart},
title={PAIN AND EFFICIENCY IN NEONATAL BLOOD SAMPLE SCREENINGS - New Devices for Reducing Pain and Improving Blood Sample Quality},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={290-295},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001776902900295},
isbn={978-989-8111- 64-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2009)
TI - PAIN AND EFFICIENCY IN NEONATAL BLOOD SAMPLE SCREENINGS - New Devices for Reducing Pain and Improving Blood Sample Quality
SN - 978-989-8111- 64-7
AU - Wacogne B.
AU - Pieralli C.
AU - Cabodevila G.
AU - Baron N.
AU - Marioli S.
AU - Pazart L.
PY - 2009
SP - 290
EP - 295
DO - 10.5220/0001776902900295