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Published on: August 21, 2015
[Nutritive provision of children during intensive therapy in the early post-aggressive period]
Insights
Optimizing nutrition in pediatric intensive care is crucial. Mixed parenteral and enteral feeding improves outcomes for critically ill children, enhancing nitrogen balance and metabolic indices.
Area of Science:
- Pediatric critical care medicine
- Clinical nutrition
- Metabolic response to injury
Context:
- Intensive care units (ICU) at Tushino Children's City Hospital, Moscow
- Study period: 2000-2005
- Patient cohort: 224 children (1 month to 15 years)
Purpose:
- To optimize nutritional support in critically ill children
- To enhance treatment efficiency in the early post-aggression period
- To evaluate the efficacy of different feeding strategies
Summary:
- Mixed parenteral and enteral feeding demonstrated superior efficacy compared to enteral feeding alone in pediatric ICU patients.
- Nutritional optimization involved adjusting protein and energy intake, reducing protein losses, and monitoring nitrogen balance.
- Positive outcomes included improved nitrogen balance, accelerated blood glucose reduction, and favorable anthropometric/somatometric changes.
Impact:
- Mixed feeding is an effective strategy for nutritional provision in pediatric intensive care.
- Optimized nutrition can positively influence metabolic and clinical outcomes in critically ill children.
- Findings support evidence-based guidelines for nutritional management in pediatric critical illness.
Abstract:
The purpose of the study conducted at the intensive care units (ICI) of a Tushino children's city hospital (CCH), Moscow, in 2000-2005, was to enhance the efficiency of treatment in children with brain injuries, severe pneumonias, or appendicitis-induced peritonitis in the early postaggression period, by optimizing their feeding. Examination of 224 patients aged 1 month to 15 years, treated at the ICI of the Tushino CCH for brain injuries, severe pneumonias, or appendicitis-induced peritonitis in 2000-2005, indicated that mixed (parenteral and enteral) feeding was more effective in children in the early postaggression period than enteral feeding. Consideration of the size of protein losses and the amount of dietary protein and energy and estimation of nitrogen balance revealed that, by increasing the amount of dietary protein and energy, lowering protein losses, and thus producing positive changes in nitrogen balance, higher blood glucose decrease rates, and in a number of anthropometric and somatometric indices, mixed (parenteral and enteral) feeding is an effective method of nutritive provision in children at an intensive care unit.
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