A promising and low-cost prototype to evaluate the motor pattern of nutritive and non-nutritive suction in newborns

• Main Authors: Manuel Cunha (Author), João Barreiros (Author), José Miguel Pereira (Author), Vítor Viegas (Author), Carlos Banha (Author), Ana Diniz (Author), Margarida Pereira (Author), Rosalina Barroso (Author), Helena Carreiro (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hygeia Press di Corridori Marinella, 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Non-nutritive sucking (NNS) plays an important role in stabilizing the preterm, providing oral muscle training opportunity for nutritive sucking (NS). We aim to determine if the prototype tested allows a precise evaluation of suction pattern characteristics (rhythmic structure and pres...