Clare Essex | Human Milk Fortifiers in Medical vs. Surgical NEC: A 10-Year Review | Delphi 2024
The Incubator Channel · 6 Nov 2025 · 11 min
Summary
A conference research talk presenting a 10-year single-centre review of 149 NEC cases, examining whether fortified versus non-fortified human milk before diagnosis was associated with surgical NEC or death. It discusses confounding, adherence gaps to feeding protocols and implications for earlier fortification and standardised feeding pathways.
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