Clinical Variations and Pain Assessment in Newborns Submitted to Intratracheal Aspiration With Open and Closed System

To compare clinical effects identified in infants undergoing intratracheal aspiration with open and closed systems and verify the presence and intensity of pain in newborns during intratracheal suction, according to the system applied.Clinical, randomized, controlled, and crossover study, performed at two neonatal intensive care units after approval by the ethics committee. The sample consisted of infants from zero to seven days of age, 26 weeks of gestational age, and the exclusion criteria were use of mechanical ventilation with high-frequency oscillatory, in use of inhaled nitric oxide, in the acute phase of circulatory failure, central nervous system disorders, without reactivity to stimulus, severe asphyxia, Apgar score less than three in the fifth minute, as well as, presence of chromosomal abnormalities and congenital malformations. After obtaining the informed consent from the responsible, children were randomly allocated into the experimental (CS) and control (OS) groups. The dependent variables of this study respiratory rate (RR), peripheral oxygen saturation (SatpO2), heart rate (HR), blood pressure (BP) and pain, as well as, of the complementary variables, were collected through observation, the Premature Infant Pain Profile (PIPP) scale application and medical records consultation. During the data collection the period of variables observation were: T1 (immediately before suctioning), T2 (during suctioning), T3 (immediately after) and T4 (10 minutes after). To the statistical analysis were applied Fisher exact test, McNemar, Binomial, Student t test, Wilcoxon and Mann Whitney, settling at 0.05 level of significance.