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NAS Pharmacologic Treatment Initiation

Purpose:

A guideline for the initiation and escalation of pharmacologic treatment for NAS when conservative measures have been insufficient.  The guideline provides initial morphine dosages as well as a stepwise escalation of dosing until symptoms are captured.  

Neonatal clinical guidelines, protocols, pathways, and algorithms for neurovascular care.

It also includes recommendations for initiating adjuvant treatment with phenobarbital or clonidine for severe cases.

It  was developed with evidence-based principles, multi-disciplinary collaboration, and individualized and family-centered approaches to caring for the neonate.

Population:

Infants with opiate exposure and symptoms of NAS

Purpose:

A guideline for the initiation and escalation of pharmacologic treatment for NAS when conservative measures have been insufficient.  The guideline provides initial morphine dosages as well as a stepwise escalation of dosing until symptoms are captured.  

It also includes recommendations for initiating adjuvant treatment with phenobarbital or clonidine for severe cases.

It  was developed with evidence-based principles, multi-disciplinary collaboration, and individualized and family-centered approaches to caring for the neonate.

Population:

Infants with opiate exposure and symptoms of NAS

Neonatal clinical guidelines, protocols, pathways, and algorithms for neurovascular care.

Hospital

St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital, 190 E Bannock St. Boise, ID 83712

Author

LaResa Janousek, NNP, janousel@slhs.org

Neonatal clinical guidelines, protocols, pathways, and algorithms for neurovascular care.

NAS Pharmacologic Treatment Initiation

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