A Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Content Validity of COMFORTneo Scale into Brazilian Portuguese.

Context: The instrument used to assess neonatal pain must be adequate regarding the type of pain, population, country, and language to provide the best evidence-based clinical strategies; however, few neonatal pain instruments have been translated and validated for the Brazilian population.

Objective: The aim was to perform a cross-cultural adaptation of the COMFORTneo scale into Brazilian Portuguese and to evaluate the content validity of the adapted scale.

Methods: The cross-cultural adaptation process followed six main steps: translation, synthesis of the translations, back-translation, submission to the expert committee, final version pretest, being that 65 individuals participated in this stage, including both healthcare professionals and students, and submission to the committee for process appraisal.

Quality Assessment of Neonatal Pain Scales Translated and Validated to Brazilian Portuguese: A Systematic Review of Psychometric Properties.

Objectives: The objective of this systematic review was to identify and describe the psychometric properties of neonatal pain scales that were translated into Brazilian Portuguese and to verify the methodological quality of these translation, transcultural adaptations and validation.

Design: The present study is a systematic review. A systematic search in the literature included studies of development, validation, and transcultural adaptation of neonatal pain scales to Brazilian Portuguese.

First Brazilian recommendation on physiotherapy with sensory motor stimulation in newborns and infants in the intensive care unit.

Objective: To present guidelines on sensory motor stimulation for newborns and infants in the intensive care unit.

Methods: We employed a mixed methods design with a systematic review of the literature and recommendations based on scientific evidence and the opinions of physiotherapists with neonatal expertise. The research included studies published between 2010 and 2018 in the MEDLINE® and Cochrane databases that included newborns (preterm and term) and infants (between 28 days and 6 months of age) hospitalized in the intensive care unit and submitted to sensory motor stimulation methods.

Effects of two modalities of noninvasive ventilation on breathing pattern of very low birth weight preterm infants immediately after extubation: a quasi-experimental study.

Aim: The primary objective of this study was to investigate the effects of two modalities of noninvasive ventilation, continuous positive airway pressure-CPAP and non-synchronized nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation-nsNIPPV, on breathing pattern of very low birth weight preterm infants immediately after extubation.

Methods: It was conducted a quasi-experimental study at a public university hospital. Infants with gestacional age ≤32 weeks and birth weight ≤1,500 g were randomized into the sequences, prior extubation: CPAP - nsNIPPV (1) or nsNIPPV - CPAP (2).

Respiratory synchrony comparison between preterm and full-term neonates using inertial sensors.

Introduction: Due to inefficient respiratory control, newborns become prone to asynchronous thoracoabdominal (TA) movements. The present study quantitatively estimated the synchrony of TA in preterm and full-term newborns through an inertial and magnetic measurement units (IMMUs) system.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted with 20 newborns divided into Preterm Group (PTG, n = 10) and Full-Term Group (FTG, n = 10).

Incidence and primary causes of unplanned extubation in a neonatal intensive care unit.

Objective: This study established the incidence and primary causes of unplanned extubation in newborns in the neonatal intensive care units of the Hospital Sofia Feldman, Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais).

Methods: This retrospective study was conducted between July 1, 2009 and April 30, 2010. Unplanned extubations and their primary causes were assessed using an adverse events form.