Uso de la tetanalgesia para valoración del dolor

Abstract

Vaccination is considered the most important advance in public health. However, it is known that it is a painful process, an unpleasant feeling, this causes rejection of vaccines, especially in children. To increase the acceptance of vaccines, nonpharmacological analgesic methods have been developed. Within these methods we find tetanalgesia, which consists of providing breastfeeding during vaccination. This research studied 51 children from the population of San Miguelito who attended compliance with the current vaccination scheme, where the scales: Neonatal Infant Pain Scale (NIPS) and Visual Analog Scale (VAS) were applied in order to assign a value to the levelof pain in infants who are subjected to this method, in addition to the tabulation in the SPSS application for the creation of graphs to facilitate the understanding of results. The results were favorable for the investigation, obtaining that theuse of tetanalgesia obtained in the NIPS scale that 58.8% of the children had moderate pain, and in the EVA scale 51% of those evaluated, being that thereis an effect in most infants, being a valid method in certain age groups