Evidence · Randomised trial
The effect of facilitated tucking during endotracheal suctioning on procedural pain in preterm neonates: a randomized controlled crossover study.
- Comfort and nursing care
- Developmental care and positioning
- Mechanical ventilation
- Neurology
- Nursing
- Pain and comfort
- Respiratory
- Seizures
This paper is from 2014, more than five years ago. Newer evidence may have been published since.
Summary
Randomised controlled crossover trial in 34 ventilated preterm infants (29-37 weeks' gestation) in a level II NICU in Tehran, Iran, assessing facilitated tucking during endotracheal suctioning. Pain was measured with the Preterm Infant Pain Profile (PIPP). Fewer infants experienced severe pain when suctioned with facilitated tucking than without it. The authors propose facilitated tucking as a safe non-pharmacological method for repeated procedural pain.
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