Blood Sampling Clinical Trial
Official title:
"Holding-cuddling" Plus Oral Sucrose Versus Oral Sucrose for Reducing Venipuncture Pain in Newborns and Infants
"Holding-cuddling" plus oral sucrose versus oral sucrose for reducing venipuncture pain in
newborns and infants.
Neonates and infants routinely undergo venipuncture in pediatric and neonatal intensive care
units.
Such procedure is painful and several units administer 24% oral sucrose with pacifier during
venipuncture, as this non-pharmacological intervention is considered safe and effective for
procedural pain relief in infants from birth to 3 months of age. However, several studies
point out that further research is needed to assess its efficacy in combination with other
behavioral interventions for analgesia during painful procedures. Current knowledge suggests
that multisensorial stimulation associated with oral sucrose could allow even more effective
analgesia. To date, the studied stimulation strategies are based on massage, voice, eye
contact and fragrance during heel prick. The "holding-cuddling" - that is the fact of holding
the child in a safe, reassuring and warm position during the examination or medical
intervention is promoted by various hospitals in order to favor the comfort of all the
caregivers during such a procedures. This intervention should be primarily parents-driven
but, in case of unavailability, it can be performed by the nursing staff. The hypothesis of
this study is that the combination of "holding-cuddling" plus oral sucrose in more effective
than oral sucrose in diminishing behavioral pain response during a venipuncture in newborns
or infants less than three-month-old.
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