Efficacy of facilitated tucking combined with non-nutritive sucking on very preterm infants ’ pain during the heel-stick procedure: a randomized controlled trial

Reducing acute pain in premature infants during neonatal care improves their neurophysiological development. The use of pharmacological and non-pharmacological analgesia, such as sucrose, is limited per day, particularly for very preterm infants. Thus, the usual practice of non-nutritive sucking is often used alone. Facilitated tucking could be an additional strategy to non-nutritive sucking for reducing pain. To the best of our knowledge, no randomized trial has compared the combination of facilitated tucking and non-nutritive sucking to non-nutritive sucking alone.
Source: International Journal of Nursing Studies - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research