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- 2019
Calmer: a robot for managing acute pain effectively in preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unitDOI: 10.1097/PR9.0000000000000727 Keywords: Preterm infant, Pain, NICU Abstract: For preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit, early exposure to repeated procedural pain is associated with negative effects on the brain. Skin-to-skin contact with parents has pain-mitigating properties, but parents may not always be available during procedures. Calmer, a robotic device that simulates key pain-reducing components of skin-to-skin contact, including heart beat sounds, breathing motion, and touch, was developed to augment clinical pain management
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