General description of the NeoOpioid project
This project is designed as a comprehensive study aiming to investigate the clinical efficacy and safety effects of opioid therapy in newborns as well as to determine clinical practices across Europe. The NeoOpioid project will advance the science of neonatal pain and stress, the clinical practice of analgesia, the pharmacokinetic determinants, while documenting current therapies and guidelines and developing a new European standard of care for pain relief in its most vulnerable population.
The NeoOpioid project is divided into 6 Work Packages (WP), of which EUROPAIN, the present study, is WP 5.
The 6 Work Packages included in the NeoOpioid project are:
- Management
- Dose optimization (morphine and fentanyl)
- Safety and clinical effects (morphine and fentanyl)
- New child friendly formulation (morphine)
- European survey – EUROPAIN Survey (This is the object of this
website)
- Administration
The coordinator of the NeoOpioid Project is
Prof. Hugo Lagercrantz
Neonatal Research. Unit Q2:07
Department of Woman and Child Health
Karolinska Institutet
Astrid Lindgren Children´s Hospital
S-171 76 Stockholm
Sweden
The NeoOpioid Project has received a Grant from the 7th Framework Program
Project title: NeoOpioid—No Pain during infancy by adapting off-patent medicines
FP7-HEALTH-2007-B
Collaborative project
The NeoOpioid Consortium
The NeoOpioid project is run by the NeoOpioid Consortium which is coordinated by Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. It is constituted by the following 12 partners (numbers are partner-numbers):
1. Karolinska Institutet (KI), Sweden
3. Lunds Universitet (ULUND), Sweden
4. Örebro Universitet (ORU), Sweden
5. Erasmus Universitair Medisch Centrum Rotterdamerasmus MC (EMC), Netherlands
9. EPMC Pharma SPRL (EPMCP), Belgium
10. Helsingin Ja Uudenmaan Sairaanhoitopiirin Kuntayhtyma (HUS), Finland
11 The University of Edinburgh (UEDIN), United Kingdom
12. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux De Paris (AP-HP), France
14. Friedrich-Alexander Universitaet Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany
15. University of Leicester (ULEIC), United Kingdom.
16. Hôpital Erasme – ULB, 1070 Bruxelles, Belgium
This project was supported by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement no. 223767