The Treatment of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome with Fentanyl in a Premature Infant

Abstract

Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a clinical condition in which infants born to mothers with substance addictions (heroin, cannabis, opiates, etc.) exhibit withdrawal symptoms and physical addiction as they have been exposed to the substances prenatally and are lacking the substance postnatally. Most often emerges with the central nervous system and autonomous nervous system findings in NAS. Seizures have been reported rarely and require emergency treatment. We report the patient who born to a mother addicted to heroin who suffered NAS and was successfully treated with fentanyl infusion as far as we know, is the first in the literature.