Non-Nutritive Sucking, Oral Breast Milk, and Facilitated Tucking Relieve Preterm Infant Pain during Heel-Stick Procedures: A Prospective, Randomized Controlled Trial

Preterm infant pain can be relieved by combining non-nutritive sucking (sucking), oral sucrose, and facilitated tucking (tucking), but the pain-relief effects of oral expressed breast milk (breast milk) are ambiguous.

Source: International Journal of Nursing Studies - October 8, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Hsueh-Fang Peng, Ti Yin, Luke Yang, Chi Wang, Yue-Cune Chang, Mei-Jy Jeng, Jen-Jiuan Liaw Source Type: research