Weighted Pacifier Vs. Non-Weighted Pacifier

Launched by ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER · Sep 17, 2019

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ClinConnect Summary

RCI-Pacifiers have been utilized for decades in the NICU to provide benifical Non-Nutritive Suck. They have been instrumental in transitioning premature infants from gavage to breast feeding Yiallouerou, S, et al, studied the effects of dummy/pacifier on autonomic activity during sleep and found pacifier use to be protective during sleep. Risks and Benefits of Pacifiers have cleary been identified Sexton, S and Natsale, R have identified that nonnutritive suck is a natural reflex for a fetus and newborn. Traditionally, the pacifier has been used as a method for fulfilling an infants innate ...

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Eligibility criteria

• • Inclusion
• • 30 week-37.6 gestational age
• • Patient is admitted to the NICU
• • The patient has the ability to suck as noted in the patient's infant assessment flow sheet prior to enrollment
• • Exclusion
• • Patient with an oral pharyngeal defect
• • Patient with an oral feeding tube
• • Patient with any medical reason that deems them unfit for the study as '''''''determined by the neonatologist
• • Patient with sustained apnea during sucking