Guideline · Consensus statement
Optimizing Nutrition in Preterm Low Birth Weight Infants-Consensus Summary.
- Allied health
- Breast milk and breastfeeding
- Enteral feeding
- Growth
- Medical
- Neurodevelopmental follow-up
- Nursing
- Nutrition and gastrointestinal
- Parenteral nutrition
This guideline is from 2017, more than five years ago. Check whether a newer version exists and which version your unit follows.
Summary
Consensus summary from a panel of neonatologists, paediatricians and nutrition experts on optimising nutrition in preterm low birth weight infants. It addresses enteral versus parenteral nutrition, timing, speed and mode of enteral feeding, feeding during respiratory support, and gastric residual monitoring. It emphasises expressed breast milk as first choice, donor milk as second, and the role of standard, targeted and adjustable fortification. Discharge readiness, counselling and post-discharge follow-up are also covered.
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