Researchers have established that newborns undergoing circumcision without an anesthetic experience pain in the same sense as older infants or children. The current guidelines for painful medical procedures with young infants call for
a. administering a general anesthetic in all cases.
b. administering only a local anesthetic in all cases.
c. letting the infant suck on sugar water or breast milk during the procedure.
d. both administering a local anesthetic and allowing the infant to suck on sugar water or breast milk.
Answer d. both administering a local anesthetic and allowing the infant to suck on sugar water or breast milk.
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