Autonomic responses of premature newborns to body position and environmental noise in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Evelim Leal de Freitas Dantas GomesCamilla Malta Dos SantosAnelise da Costa Souza SantosAline Gomes da SilvaMariza Aparecida Malaquias FrançaDyele Souza RomaniniManoela Cristina Veiga de MattosAndrea Fernanda LealDirceu CostaPublished in: Revista Brasileira de terapia intensiva (2019)
The prone position and manual restraint position increased both parasympathetic activity and the complexity of autonomic adjustments in comparison to the supine position, even in the presence of higher environmental noise than the recommended level, which tends to increase sympathetic activity.