[Application of non-nutritive sucking in preterm infants requiring mechanical ventilation].

Objective: To study the role of non-nutritive sucking in preterm infants requiring mechanical ventilation therapy.

Methods: In a study of 68 preterm infants requiring mechanical ventilation, a randomly selected observation group of 35 infants was provided with non-nutritive sucking and a control group of 33 infants was not. The time to reach full enteral feeding, birth weight recovery time, body weight growth rate, hospitalization time, feeding tolerance and mechanical ventilation-related complications were compared between the two groups.