Pain
Understanding maternal perspectives of skin-to-skin contact for the management of acute pain in very and extremely preterm infants.
Haleh Hashemi, Estreya Cohen, Nichaela Garvey, Andrea Lebovic, Fabiana Bacchini, Lesley Johannsson, Carol Cheng, Vibhuti Shah, Rebecca Pillai Riddell
Published: 202510.1097/j.pain.0000000000003885
Abstract
ABSTRACT: Skin-to-skin care (SSC) and skin-to-skin contact for procedural pain (SSCP) are recognized for their physiological and emotional benefits in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), including pain reduction in preterm infants. However, litt…
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