ReviewJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2017
Acupuncture in the neonatal intensive care unit-using ancient medicine to help today's babies: a review.
Review in Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Acupuncture for procedural pain in newborn infants.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Antibiotic Use in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Practicing Integrative Medicine-A Retrospective Analysis.Journal of integrative and complementary medicine · 2024Observational
- Magnetic Non-invasive Auricular Acupuncture During Eye-Exam for Retinopathy of Prematurity in Preterm Infants: A Multicentre Randomized Controlled Trial.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2020Article
- Culturally Based Practice in Neonatal Procedural Pain Management: A Mini Review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2020Review
- Acceptance of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Launching Point.Global advances in health and medicine · 2020Article
- Use of Acupuncture in an Infant with Restlessness and Agitation.Medicines (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Auricular Medicine in Neonatal Care.Medical acupuncture · 2018Article
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Abstract
Acupuncture has been used for thousands of years in Eastern medicine for a variety of conditions and illnesses, including pain. Neonatal intensive care, on the other hand, is a relatively new branch of medicine that has emerged as the pivotal influence in increasing survival of critically ill newborn infants only within the last 50 years. Unfortunately, pain is an inevitable part of treatment in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The control and prevention of pain remains a major issue for clinicians despite recognition and understanding of the myriad of short- and long-term problems that are associated with both pain and its treatment within the NICU environment. In this review, we examine the potential role of acupuncture to decrease and treat pain in babies requiring neonatal intensive care and discuss future therapeutic and research implications for the use of this ancient therapy within the modern environment of the NICU.
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