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Skin‐to‐skin care for procedural pain in neonates
Journal article

Skin‐to‐skin care for procedural pain in neonates

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Skin-to-skin care (SSC), otherwise known as Kangaroo Care (KC) due to its similarity with marsupial behaviour of ventral maternal-infant contact, is one non-pharmacological intervention for pain control in infants. OBJECTIVES: The primary objectives were to determine the effect of SSC alone on pain from medical or nursing procedures in neonates undergoing painful procedures compared to no intervention, sucrose or other analgesics, …

Authors

Johnston C; Campbell‐Yeo M; Fernandes A; Inglis D; Streiner D; Zee R

Journal

, , No. 1,

Publisher

Wiley

DOI

10.1002/14651858.cd008435.pub2

ISSN

1465-1858