The purpose of this study was to evaluate the pain intensity in the premature newborn hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit through Neonatal Infant Pain Scale (NIPS), during the arterial blood collect using non nutritious suction. It was a quantitative, intervention study accomplished with 24 newborns in Fortaleza Ceará, in 2004. The experimental group received a gauze pacifier soaked in distilled water and the control group received a gauze pacifier soaked in 25% of glucose, both used two minutes before the blood collect. In the inferential analysis the average intensity of the pain with the group of distilled water was 6,08 while with the group of 25% of glucose the average was 1,04. We then concluded that the behavior changes showed intense modifications, while the physiological ones didn't present meaningful variations.
Pain; Newborn; Nursing; Neonatology
