Effectiveness of a therapeutic bath for pain relief in hospitalized children with respiratory conditions: Randomized controlled clinical trial.

Aim: To assess the effectiveness of a therapeutic bath combined with analgesic medication versus the use of analgesic medication alone in alleviating generalized acute pain in hospitalized children with respiratory conditions.

Methods: A randomized controlled clinical trial, with parallel groups, with children aged 28 days to 3 years who were hospitalized for respiratory conditions with associated pain. Participants were allocated into two groups: 40 children to a control group (CG), which received isolated analgesic medication at same time, and 40 children to an intervention group (IG), which received both a therapeutic bath and analgesic medication.

Practice of immersion in hot water to relieve pain in neonatology: an integrative review.

Objectives: to identify immersion use in hot water to relieve pain in newborns.

Methods: an integrative literature review, carried out in the PubMed, VHL, EMBASE, Scopus, CINAHL, Cochrane and SciELO databases, with investigations in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese, published between 2002 and 2022. The Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS) and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) were used to answer the following question: what are the uses of hot water immersion in relieving pain in newborns?

Results: nine studies were included, mainly Brazilian, experimental, with a predominance of strong and moderate levels of evidence.