San Francisco—It may be feasible to use cry acoustics to identify neonatal pain. Although research is still very early, investigators from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville, Tenn., hope their study evolves to the point at which health care personnel can use a hand-held device to identify the nature of neonatal pain.
“We all know that identifying pain is a tremendous challenge in dealing with neonates,” said Carrie Menser, MD, assistant professor of