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Jpen Parenter Enter · Feb 2015
Epidemiology of interruptions to nutrition support in critically ill children in the pediatric intensive care unit.
Nutrition support is often delayed or interrupted. The aim of this study is to identify reasons for and quantify time spent without nutrition in a mixed medical-surgical-cardiac pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). ⋯ Prolonged time to nutrition initiation and interruptions in delivery caused pediatric patients to spend a high proportion of admission without nutrition support, preventing most from meeting energy requirements. Further research addressing specific patient outcomes is required to define optimal initiation times and appropriate procedural-specific fasting times.
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Jpen Parenter Enter · Jan 2015
Randomized Controlled TrialIntensive nutrition in acute lung injury: a clinical trial (INTACT).
Despite extensive use of enteral (EN) and parenteral nutrition (PN) in intensive care unit (ICU) populations for 4 decades, evidence to support their efficacy is extremely limited. ⋯ Provision of IMNT from ALI diagnosis to hospital discharge increases mortality.