[PDF] Top 20 Use of Donnatal TM Elixir in the Treatment of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

... After 6 weeks the baby was having difficulty weaning his methadone any further. His methadone dose at that time was 0.08mg/kg/dose. Any attempts at a further reduction in dose resulted in significantly higher NAS scores ... See full document

... opioid use on ...opioid use disorder in various ...opioid use and NAS include 1) the fertility rate amongst opioid-addicted mothers, 2) the proportion of pregnant women using non-opioid drugs such as ... See full document

... every other day. If the lowest dose reached ,0.1 mg/kg per day, morphine was discontinued, and the infant was monitored for 48 hours and then discharged. If re-escalation was needed at any time, the previous dose was ... See full document

... effects were tested between level of nursery care (level 1 – 3 nurseries) and the use of a strict weaning protocol. Models were assessed for in fl uential outliers or observations (through model diagnostic ... See full document

... opioid use during pregnancy sufficient enough to result in NAS was associated with a significant decrease in HC at ...recommended treatment option during ... See full document

... treatment site, linear mixed models were used to test mean differences in the main outcomes before and after collaborative-wide adoption. Random effects allowed us to account for patients clustered within each ... See full document

... found no difference in the average length of treatment with morphine in newborns with NAS. However, a post hoc analysis among newborns of women who were compliant with the acupuncture regimen (compared with the ... See full document

... Based on multiple reports, maternal use of psychoactive medications and illicit drugs is highly prevalent during pregnancy. This in turn has led to growing numbers of infants presenting with NAS. Well documented ... See full document

... from use of published abstinence tools to incon- sistent assessment strategies ...and treatment of ...recommends use of a standard- ized tool such as the gold-standard Finnegan ... See full document

... pharmacological treatment for NAS. Median age at commencement of treatment was 3 days (range 1 13 days), and this was not related to the pattern of maternal drug ...line treatment (n = 42), just over ... See full document

... NAS treatment on long-term outcomes, which is currently based on subjective clinical assessment, and infants are medicated with a variety of drugs depending on local ... See full document

... However, there is persuasive anec- dotal evidence of a misunderstand- ing of the intent of the law by parents and within the health care, social ser- vice, and court systems. This confu- sion surrounds the interpretation ... See full document

... ternal use of alcohol or of benzodiazepines in the 30 days before enrollment (as determined by self-report or in- take urine drug screen), concomitant neonatal use of cytochrome P450 3A inhibitors or ... See full document

... parents continuously in the care of their infants (volunteers were used if a family member was not available); parents were strongly encouraged to room-in, to feed their infants on demand, and to tend to their infant if ... See full document

... Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a result of the sudden discon- tinuation of fetal exposure to substances that were used or abused by the mother during ...terminating treatment in neo- ... See full document

... The opioid epidemic has brought into sharp focus the use of opioids by women of childbearing age and the possibility of resultant neonatal abstinence syndrome. Some studies suggest that the ... See full document

... medication-assisted treatment can be associated with NAS, pregnant women who undergo treatment of opioid use disorder with medication-assisted treatment can make plans to deliver at a health ... See full document

... substance use, morphine syrup was used to treat the newborn, which quickly reduced his ...sought treatment of tianeptine ...tianeptine use before the ... See full document

... With our report, we add to the handful of reports of NAS due to maternal Kratom exposure. To our knowledge, this is only the second infant born in the United States to be reported. With our country’s growing opioid ... See full document

... Because linked patient data were deidentified, it was not possible to obtain further information from medical records. We presumed that NAS resulted from exposure to maternal opioids, but whether this was due to ... See full document