The analgesic effect of non-pharmacological interventions to reduce procedural pain in preterm neonates

Thank you very much for informing us about the comments for our study from the readers.1,2 The first concern was that the infants included in our study were given the pain reducing treatments which were of no evidence- based and were already shown to be ineffective.  Actually, most of the previous studies in this aspect were conducted in full-term babies or healthy preterms, and the preterms included were quite few. However, in this study, we chose sick premature neonates who were unable to breastfeed or receive skin-to-skin care; some of them received nasal p rong continuous positive airway pressure or nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation.

Source: Pediatrics and Neonatology - July 2, 2019 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Kao-Hsian Hsieh, Shu-Jen Chen, Pei-Chen Tsao, Chih-Chien Wang, Ching-Feng Huang, Chien-Ming Lin, Ya-Ling Chou, Wei-Yu Chen, I-Ching Chan Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research