Using a mask to decrease photosensitivity following screening for retinopathy of prematurity reduced stress in the infants after the examination, according to study.
Andrei- Alexandru Szigiato, MD, and colleagues investigated the effects of phototherapy masks worn during mydriasis on infant stress in the 12-hour period following the ROP screening.
“Exposure to early procedural pain in very premature infants has been linked to impaired cognitive development, reduced brain size in frontal and parietal lobes and a reduction in white matter and subcortical gray matter,” Szigiato, an
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