MCN. The American journal of maternal child nursing
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MCN Am J Matern Child Nurs · May 2004
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialThe efficacy of facilitated tucking for relieving procedural pain of endotracheal suctioning in very low birthweight infants.
This study compared the efficacy of a behavioral pain reducing intervention (facilitated tucking) with standard neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) care for decreasing procedural pain (endotracheal suctioning) in very low birthweight (VLBW) infants. ⋯ Facilitated tucking is a developmentally sensitive, nonpharmacological comfort measure that can relieve procedural pain in VLBW infants. Nurses need to be increasingly aware of infant pain during daily care taking, and to use validated pain assessment instruments. Further clinical research on individual pain assessment is needed for better understanding of the quality and significance of pain for each infant, and the factors that affect pain expression.