What Is Finnegan Score?
The Finnegan Scoring System Is Used to Quantify and Diagnose Neonatal Withdrawal or Abstinence Syndrome. This Is a Withdrawal Syndrome of Infants, Caused by...
The Finnegan scoring system is used to quantify and diagnose neonatal withdrawal or abstinence syndrome. This is a withdrawal syndrome of infants, caused by the cessation of the administration of licit or illicit drugs.
What do Finnegan scores mean?
The Finnegan scale assesses 21 of the most common signs of neonatal drug withdrawal syndrome and is scored on the basis of pathological significance and severity of the adverse symptoms, which sometimes requires pharmacological treatment.
What is a high Finnegan score?
The Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence Scoring System17
The individual NAS symptoms are weighted (numerically scoring 1–5) depending on the symptom, and the severity of the symptom expressed. Infants scoring an 8 or greater are recommended to receive pharmacologic therapy.
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