ArticleJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2020
Very low birth weight infants receive full enteral nutrition within 2 postnatal weeks.
Article in Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Pooled it
- Early and exclusive enteral nutrition in infants born very preterm.Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition · 2024Trial
- Early Human Milk Fortification in Infants Born Extremely Preterm: A Randomized Trial.Pediatrics · 2023Trial
- Exclusive enteral nutrition in preterm infants: How early is too early?Seminars in fetal & neonatal medicine · 2025Review
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- Providing very low-birth-weight infants with fast enteral feeding reduced how long they needed a central venous catheter.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2025Article
- Time to Reach Full Enteral Feeding and Its Predictors among Very Low Birth Weight Neonates Admitted in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Follow-Up Cohort Study.Journal of nutrition and metabolism · 2024Article
- Combined Nutrition in Very-Low-Birth-Weight Preterm Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.Cureus · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveIdentify whether an enteral nutrition goal of reaching full feeds by 7 postnatal days for infants 1-1.5 kg and by 14 postnatal days for infants <1 kg was feasible and its associated outcomes. STUDY
designVery low birth weight infant cohort admitted in the first postnatal day and categorized as either Epoch 1 or Epoch 2, 12 months before and after implementation of a revised feeding protocol were compared.
resultIn Epoch 2, 83% infants born 1-1.5 kg and 77% infants born <1 kg reached full feeds by 7 and 14 days compared to 26% and 25%, respectively in Epoch 1 (p < 0.0001). Central line and parental nutrition days were significantly lower in Epoch 2 compared to Epoch 1 with sustained and potentially improved infant growth.
conclusionAn evidence-based advancement feeding protocol was associated with achieving full feeds within the first 2 postnatal weeks for very low birth weight infants.
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