An Effective Model of Reducing Pain in Preterm Neonates: Facilitated Tucking

Preterm newborns are more sensitive to the pain caused after such interventions, because of the matured pain mechanisms of preterms. Non-pharmacological methods are emphasized as much as pharmacological methods in reducing pain.This article was conducted to examine Facilitated Tucking which is one of the non- pharmacological methods used to reduce pain in preterm newborn. Relevant publication were screened retrospectively. This purpose; search was conducted from Istanbul University internet access across the network, search engine were used such as PubMed, Science Direct, Medline, Ovid, various combination were made keywords such as Preterm newborn, Pain, Non-Pharmacological method, Facilitated Tucking. Published between the years 1995-2012, all nation and international research and rewiev articles were reviewed. The Facilitated Tucking, “which is one of the non-pharmacological methods, is a sub-form of the containment method and is defined as the procedure of taking the body close to the middle line in a closed position by keeping the upper and lower extremities of the baby in flexion with the hands”. This method is reported to provide the heat and tactile warnings, to stimulate the regulatory systems of infant, to inhibit painful stimuli from the external environment and reduce the pain experienced by infant. The nurses should use appropriatenon-pharmacological methods of newborn to prevention or reduction the pain.