Nutrición hospitalaria : organo oficial de la Sociedad Española de Nutrición Parenteral y Enteral
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A mobile application or app, is a software designed for smartphones and other mobile devices. Nowadays these have undergone a boom in its users offer and diversity, entering the field of medicine, for both professionals and patients. In "health apps" category, there is a part for the field of nutrition. It is estimated that in the category of "diet and fitness" more than 5,400 apps. ⋯ Although most applications are not useful or safe, if in the future are normalized and improved, they could provide a useful tool for the healthcare system and society.
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Pediatric parenteral nutrition enables normal growth even of preterm infants. Those children require, however, tailored parenteral nutrition and the creation of such can be challenging due to the risk of instability and shortages. ⋯ The study proved that it was possible to store pre-admixture in EVA bags for 21 days at 4°C as well as that CAN (critical aggregation number) and CaxP (the products of multiplication of calcium and phosphate ions concentration) should not be used as reliable indicators of admixture physical stability. No influence of the type of calcium salts on stability of admixtures was observed.