The Effects of Manual and Automatic Lancets on Pain and Stress in Newborn Capillary Heel Blood Collection

Ataturk University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Newborn; Pain; Stress

Treatments: Device: Automatic lancet

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05448508

TKP-2022-10664

Details and patient eligibility

About

Heel blood sampling is a routine but painful procedure for newborns. A limited number of international studies have shown that automatic lancets are more effective with less pain and tissue damage than manual lancets.

In line with this information, this study was planned to investigate the effects of manual and automatic lancets on pain and stress in newborn capillary heel blood collection.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 1 day old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Postnatal age zero day
• Term newborn
• No congenital anomalies
• No advanced medical intervention at birth
• Infants not receiving oxygen or respiratory support

Exclusion criteria

• Legal guardian not giving consent to research

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Automatic Lancet

Experimental group

Description:

Manual lancet, needle tips and automatic lancets are used in the heel blood collection process. It has been reported that there may be complications arising from health professionals in the use of manual lancet or needle tip. In this study, an automatic lancet penetrating 2.4 mm-3 mm depth was used for safe puncture in term newborns.

Treatment:

Device: Automatic lancet

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention, routine maintenance performed