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Gunes NEO, Cetinkaya S. Assessment the knowledge, care, and experiences of neonatal nurses about enteral nutrition. Medicine (Baltimore) 2023; 102:e31081. [PMID: 37233433 PMCID: PMC10219700 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000031081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2022] [Accepted: 09/07/2022] [Indexed: 05/27/2023] Open
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Enteral-feeding refers to any nutritional method throughout the gastrointestinal tract, including oral feeding. This qualitative study examined the information, experiences, and records of neonatal nurses of enterally fed patients. The study was conducted between 05.04.2018 and 05.05.2018 with 22 nurses (73.3%) working in the neonatal intensive care clinic of Çukurova University Balcali Hospital, Adana, Turkey. The data were collected by "Observation and Interview Form" developed based on the literature. Nurses were observed, and interviews were conducted depending on their appointments. Data were collected by observing each nurse on 2 different days. In all observations; it was determined that the nurses changed the feeding set daily, regularly checked the location of the feeding tube and amount of residue, and administered medication through the feeding tube. In 22.7% of the observations, nurses did not securely fix the feeding tube, 27.2% did not write a daily date on the injector with the residual volume measured, and 31.8% did not wash the injector. All the nurses recorded the amount of feed, residual amounts, and content. At the end of the interviews, 9% of the nurses stated that they had experienced aspiration among the complications encountered during enteral feeding. During the interview, they stated that all nurses were educated about enteral nutrition, had control of whether the probe was in place before feeding, performed residual control, washed their hands before the procedure, fixed the food injector to 1 place, and allowed the food injector to flow spontaneously with negative pressure. According to the results of the interviews and observations, nurses could not reflect on their nursing practices correctly. Nurses working in neonatal intensive care units should be regularly trained to share the results of evidence-based studies on enteral nutrition.
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- Cukurova University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, Child Health and Diseases Nursing (Associate Professor), Adana, Turkey
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Şimşek DC, Aydın M, Günay U. Does Kangaroo Care Have an Effect on Transition Time from Gavage Feeding to Full Oral Feeding in Premature Babies? KLINISCHE PADIATRIE 2022. [PMID: 36539196 DOI: 10.1055/a-1982-9599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Kangaroo care is a safe and effective alternative method to conventional neonatal care for newborn babies. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of kangaroo care on the transition time to full oral feeding in preterm infants fed by gavage. METHODS This is a randomized controlled trial. This study was conducted in a level III neonatal intensive care unit of a university hospital in eastern Turkey 50 premature babies with a birth weight of≥1000 g and a gestational age of 27-36 weeks, and their mothers were included in the study. The cases were randomly divided into two groups: kangaroo care, which would be applied up to five days a week, and standard care. Records of cases were kept regularly from their hospitalization until they reached full oral feeding. RESULTS Premature babies in the kangaroo care group reached full oral feeding at 29.20±8.06 days after birth, while babies in the standard care group reached full oral feeding at 44.60±21.90 days. The transition period from gavage feeding to reaching full oral feeding was 13.60±6.83 days in the kangaroo care group, and 22.10±7.38 days in the standard care group. The difference was statistically significant (p=0.007). CONCLUSION Kangaroo care is an effective method to reduce the transition time from gavage feeding to full oral feeding for premature babies.
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- School of Medicine, Firat Universitesi, Elazig, Turkey
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- Faculty of Nursing, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey
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Nabialek T, Tume LN, Cercueil E, Morice C, Bouvet L, Baudin F, Valla FV. Planned Peri-Extubation Fasting in Critically Ill Children: An International Survey of Practice. Front Pediatr 2022; 10:905058. [PMID: 35633966 PMCID: PMC9132478 DOI: 10.3389/fped.2022.905058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2022] [Accepted: 04/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Cumulative energy/protein deficit is associated with impaired outcomes in pediatric intensive care Units (PICU). Enteral nutrition is the preferred mode, but its delivery may be compromised by periods of feeding interruptions around procedures, with peri-extubation fasting the most common procedure. Currently, there is no evidence to guide the duration of the peri-extubation fasting in PICU. Therefore, we aimed to explore current PICU fasting practices around the time of extubation and the rationales supporting them. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross sectional electronic survey was disseminated via the European Pediatric Intensive Care Society (ESPNIC) membership. Experienced senior nurses, dieticians or doctors were invited to complete the survey on behalf of their unit, and to describe their practice on PICU fasting prior to and after extubation. RESULTS We received responses from 122 PICUs internationally, mostly from Europe. The survey confirmed that fasting practices are often extrapolated from guidelines for fasting prior to elective anesthesia. However, there were striking differences in the duration of fasting times, with some units not fasting at all (in patients considered to be low risk), while others withheld feeding for all patients. Fasting following extubation also showed large variations in practice: 46 (38%) and 26 (21%) of PICUs withheld oral and gastric/jejunal nutrition more than 5 h, respectively, and 45 (37%) started oral feeding based on child demand. The risk of vomiting/aspiration and reducing nutritional deficit were the main reasons for fasting children [78 (64%)] or reducing fasting times [57 (47%)] respectively. DISCUSSION This variability in practices suggests that shorter fasting times might be safe. Shortening the duration of unnecessary fasting, as well as accelerating the extubation process could potentially be achieved by using other methods of assessing gastric emptiness, such as gastric point of care ultrasonography (POCUS). Yet only half of the units were aware of this technique, and very few used it.
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- Tomasz Nabialek
- Pediatric Intensive Care, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- School of Health and Society, University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Pediatric Intensive Care, Lyon University Children Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Pediatric Intensive Care, Lyon University Children Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Lyon University Children Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Pediatric Intensive Care, Lyon University Children Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Pediatric Intensive Care, Lyon University Children Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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Toh S, Ong C, Sultana R, Kirk AHP, Koh JC, Lee JH. Association between admission body mass index and outcomes in critically ill children: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin Nutr 2021; 40:2772-2783. [PMID: 33933743 DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2021.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2021] [Revised: 03/23/2021] [Accepted: 04/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS The association between nutritional status at pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission with clinical outcomes remains unclear. We conducted this systematic review to summarize the overall impact of PICU admission body mass index (BMI) on clinical outcomes. METHODS We searched the following medical databases from inception through May 2020: PubMed, Excerpta Medica database (Embase), Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Cochrane Library, and Web of Science. We included studies on patients ≤18 years old admitted to a PICU that investigated the effect of BMI on mortality, PICU or hospital length of stay (LOS), or duration of mechanical ventilation (MV). Classification of underweight, overweight, and obese were based on each study's criteria. RESULTS There was a total of 21,558 patients from 20 included studies. 12,936 (60.0%), 2965 (13.8%), 2182 (10.1%), 3348 (15.5%) were normal weight, underweight, overweight, and obese patients, respectively. Relative to normal weight patients, underweight (OR 1.32, 95% CI 0.89-1.98; p = 0.171) and overweight/obese patients (OR 1.10, 95% CI 0.86-1.42; p = 0.446) did not have an increase risk in mortality. There was also no difference in duration of MV, PICU and hospital LOS between all three weight categories. Included studies were heterogeneous and lacked standardized nutritional categorization. Sensitivity analysis including only studies that used BMI z-scores as nutritional classification (n = 5) revealed that underweight patients had higher odds of mortality compared to patients with normal weight (OR 1.61, 95% CI 1.35-1.92; p < 0.001); studies that used percentiles as classification did not reveal any differences in mortality. Sensitivity analysis including only studies containing mixed PICU cohorts (i.e., excluding specialized cohorts e.g., congenital heart surgeries, burns) revealed higher mortality odds in underweight patients (OR 1.53, 95% CI 1.25-1.87; p < 0.001) and overweight/obese patients (OR 1.51, 95% CI 1.14-2.01; p = 0.004) relative to normal weight patients. CONCLUSIONS Our systematic review did not reveal any association between PICU admission BMI status and outcomes in critically ill children. Further investigation with standardized nutrition status classification on admission, stratified by patient subgroups, is needed to clarify the association between nutritional status and clinical outcomes of PICU patients.
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- Samantha Toh
- Duke-NUS Medical School, 8 College Rd, 169857, Singapore
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- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, 100 Bukit Timah Rd, 229899, Singapore
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- Duke-NUS Medical School, 8 College Rd, 169857, Singapore
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- Children's Intensive Care Unit, Division of Nursing, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, 100 Bukit Timah Rd, 229899, Singapore
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- Department of Paediatric Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, 100 Bukit Timah Rd, 229899, Singapore
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- Duke-NUS Medical School, 8 College Rd, 169857, Singapore; Children's Intensive Care Unit, Department of Pediatric Subspecialties, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, 100 Bukit Timah Rd, 229899, Singapore.
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Deja E, Roper L, Tume LN, Dorling J, Gale C, Arch B, Latten L, Pathan N, Eccleson H, Hickey H, Preston J, Beissel A, Andrzejewska I, Valla FV, Woolfall K. Can they stomach it? Parent and practitioner acceptability of a trial comparing gastric residual volume measurement versus no gastric residual volume in UK NNU and PICUs: a feasibility study. Pilot Feasibility Stud 2021; 7:49. [PMID: 33593416 PMCID: PMC7885383 DOI: 10.1186/s40814-021-00784-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2020] [Accepted: 01/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Routine measurement of gastric residual volume (GRV) to guide feeding in neonatal and paediatric intensive care is widespread. However, this practice is not evidence based and may cause harm. As part of a feasibility study, we explored parent and practitioner views on the acceptability of a trial comparing GRV measurement or no GRV measurement. METHODS A mixed-methods study involving interviews and focus groups with practitioners and interviews with parents with experience of tube feeding in neonatal and/or paediatric intensive care. A voting system recorded closed question responses during practitioner data collection, enabling the collection of quantitative and qualitative data. Data were analysed using thematic analysis and descriptive statistics. RESULTS We interviewed 31 parents and nine practitioners and ran five practitioner focus groups (n=42). Participants described how the research question was logical, and the intervention would not be invasive and potential benefits of not withholding the child's feeds. However, both groups held concerns about the potential risk of not measuring GRV, including delayed diagnosis of infection and gut problems, increased risk of vomiting into lungs and causing discomfort or pain. Parent's views on GRV measurement and consent decision making were influenced by their views on the importance of feeding in the ICU, their child's prognosis and associated comorbidities or complications. CONCLUSIONS The majority of parents and practitioners viewed the proposed trial as acceptable. Potential concerns and preferences were identified that will need careful consideration to inform the development of the proposed trial protocol and staff training.
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- Elizabeth Deja
- Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
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- Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- School of Health & Society, University of Salford, Manchester, M6 6PU, UK
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- Division of Pediatrics and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
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- Neonatal Medicine, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital campus, London, UK
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- Medicines for Children Clinical Trials Unit, Clinical Trials Research Centre, University of Liverpool Institute of Child Health Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Dietetics, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK
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- Paediatric Intensive Care, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge, Campbridge, UK
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- Medicines for Children Clinical Trials Unit, Clinical Trials Research Centre, University of Liverpool Institute of Child Health Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Medicines for Children Clinical Trials Unit, Clinical Trials Research Centre, University of Liverpool Institute of Child Health Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Hôpital Femme Mère Enfant, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon-Bron, France
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- Faculty of Health & Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.,Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, CarMEN INSERM UMR 1060 Equipe INFOLIP, Hôpital Femme Mère Enfant, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon-Bron, France
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- Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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Tume LN, Woolfall K, Arch B, Roper L, Deja E, Jones AP, Latten L, Pathan N, Eccleson H, Hickey H, Parslow R, Preston J, Beissel A, Andrzejewska I, Gale C, Valla FV, Dorling J. Routine gastric residual volume measurement to guide enteral feeding in mechanically ventilated infants and children: the GASTRIC feasibility study. Health Technol Assess 2020; 24:1-120. [PMID: 32458797 DOI: 10.3310/hta24230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The routine measurement of gastric residual volume to guide the initiation and delivery of enteral feeding is widespread in paediatric intensive care and neonatal units, but has little underlying evidence to support it. OBJECTIVE To answer the question: is a trial of no gastric residual volume measurement feasible in UK paediatric intensive care units and neonatal units? DESIGN A mixed-methods study involving five linked work packages in two parallel arms: neonatal units and paediatric intensive care units. Work package 1: a survey of units to establish current UK practice. Work package 2: qualitative interviews with health-care professionals and caregivers of children admitted to either setting. Work package 3: a modified two-round e-Delphi survey to investigate health-care professionals' opinions on trial design issues and to obtain consensus on outcomes. Work package 4: examination of national databases to determine the potential eligible populations. Work package 5: two consensus meetings of health-care professionals and parents to review the data and agree consensus on outcomes that had not reached consensus in the e-Delphi study. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING Parents of children with experience of ventilation and tube feeding in both neonatal units and paediatric intensive care units, and health-care professionals working in neonatal units and paediatric intensive care units. RESULTS Baseline surveys showed that the practice of gastric residual volume measurement was very common (96% in paediatric intensive care units and 65% in neonatal units). Ninety per cent of parents from both neonatal units and paediatric intensive care units supported a future trial, while highlighting concerns around possible delays in detecting complications. Health-care professionals also indicated that a trial was feasible, with 84% of staff willing to participate in a trial. Concerns expressed by junior nurses about the intervention arm of not measuring gastric residual volumes were addressed by developing a simple flow chart and education package. The trial design survey and e-Delphi study gained consensus on 12 paediatric intensive care unit and nine neonatal unit outcome measures, and identified acceptable inclusion and exclusion criteria. Given the differences in physiology, disease processes, environments, staffing and outcomes of interest, two different trials are required in the two settings. Database analyses subsequently showed that trials were feasible in both settings in terms of patient numbers. Of 16,222 children who met the inclusion criteria in paediatric intensive care units, 12,629 stayed for > 3 days. In neonatal units, 15,375 neonates < 32 weeks of age met the inclusion criteria. Finally, the two consensus meetings demonstrated 'buy-in' from the wider UK neonatal communities and paediatric intensive care units, and enabled us to discuss and vote on the outcomes that did not achieve consensus in the e-Delphi study. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK Two separate UK trials (one in neonatal units and one in paediatric intensive care units) are feasible to conduct, but they cannot be combined as a result of differences in outcome measures and treatment protocols, reflecting the distinctness of the two specialties. TRIAL REGISTRATION Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN42110505. FUNDING This project was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment programme and will be published in full in Health Technology Assessment; Vol. 24, No. 23. See the NIHR Journals Library website for further project information.
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- Lyvonne N Tume
- School of Health and Society, University of Salford, Salford, UK
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- Department of Health Services Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Liverpool Clinical Trials Centre, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Health Services Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Health Services Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Liverpool Clinical Trials Centre, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Nutrition and Dietetics, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Liverpool Clinical Trials Centre, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Liverpool Clinical Trials Centre, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Institute of Translational Medicine (Child Health), Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Neonatal Unit, Hôpital Femme Mère Enfant, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon-Bron, France
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- Neonatal Medicine, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK
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- Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hôpital Femme Mère Enfant, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon-Bron, France
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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Sng QW, Ong C, Ang SLL, Kirk AHP, Lee JH. Use of an Electronic Feeds Calorie Calculator in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Pediatr Qual Saf 2020; 5:e249. [PMID: 32766483 PMCID: PMC7056286 DOI: 10.1097/pq9.0000000000000249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2019] [Accepted: 12/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Strategies to improve nutritional management are associated with better outcomes in pediatric intensive care units. We implemented a calorie-based protocol that integrated an electronic feeds calculator and stepwise feeds increment algorithm.
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- Qian Wen Sng
- Division of Nursing, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore.,Children's Intensive Care Unit, Department of Pediatric Subspecialties, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore
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- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore
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- Division of Nursing, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore.,Children's Intensive Care Unit, Department of Pediatric Subspecialties, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore
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- Children's Intensive Care Unit, Department of Pediatric Subspecialties, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore.,Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
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Zhang H, Gu Y, Mi Y, Jin Y, Fu W, Latour JM. High-energy nutrition in paediatric cardiac critical care patients: a randomized controlled trial. Nurs Crit Care 2018; 24:97-102. [PMID: 30548121 DOI: 10.1111/nicc.12400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2018] [Revised: 08/26/2018] [Accepted: 10/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that feeding a high-energy formula (HF) to infants after cardiac surgery increases energy intake, with fewer side effects on cardiopulmonary function. However, impacts on weight gain and gastrointestinal function remain unclear. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To determine the impact of HF compared with standard formula on weight gain and gastrointestinal tolerance in postoperative infants with congenital heart disease. DESIGN This was a randomized controlled trial. METHODS The setting of the study was at a 20-bed cardiac intensive care unit at a tertiary children's hospital in China. Study population included infants <1 year of age who underwent cardiac surgery and were allocated to the intervention group (n = 32) or control group (n = 32). The intervention group received HF (100 kcal/100 mL), and the control group received standard formula (67 kcal/100 mL) for 7 days during the stabilized postoperative period at the cardiac intensive care unit. Primary outcomes were weight gain and gastrointestinal intolerance. Secondary outcomes were energy intake and standard intensive care characteristics. RESULTS Infants who received HF (n = 30) showed less weight loss than those who received standard formula (n = 29); -16 g [95% confidence interval (CI): -74 to 42] versus -181 g (95% CI: -264 to -99), P = 0·001. The evaluation of gastrointestinal intolerance showed that the intervention group had several side effects, such as abdominal distension (n = 1), gastric retention (n = 2) and diarrhoea (n = 1), while the control group had no problems. Enteral energy intake in the intervention group was higher than the control group from day three. CONCLUSION Infants after cardiac surgery fed with HF gained more weight but had increased feeding intolerance. However, the feeding intolerance symptoms could be relieved by medication and did not affect feeding advancement. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE Paediatric intensive care clinicians should consider gradually increasing the energy density of the formula during feeding and assess feeding intolerance signs in some children with malnutrition after cardiac surgery.
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- Huiwen Zhang
- Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Nursing Department, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Nursing Department, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.,Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, UK
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Eveleens RD, Dungen DK, Verbruggen SCAT, Hulst JM, Joosten KFM. Weight improvement with the use of protein and energy enriched nutritional formula in infants with a prolonged PICU stay. J Hum Nutr Diet 2018; 32:3-10. [PMID: 30318663 DOI: 10.1111/jhn.12603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Reaching an optimal nutritional intake is challenging in critically ill infants. One possible way to minimise nutritional deficits is the use of protein and energy-enriched (PE)-formulas. We aimed to describe weight achievement and gastrointestinal symptoms in infants admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) while receiving PE-formula for a prolonged period. METHODS Records from infants admitted to a multidisciplinary PICU and using PE-formula were analysed retrospectively. Infants were eligible if they received PE-formula daily for at least 2 weeks. Weight achievement was determined as the difference between weight-for-age (WFA) Z-scores at the start and end of PE-formula use. Gastrointestinal symptoms, including gastric residual volume, constipation and vomiting, were evaluated as tolerance parameters. RESULTS Seventy infants with a median [interquartile range (IQR)] age of 76 (30-182) days were eligible. The PICU duration was 50 (35-83) days during which they received PE-formula for 30 (21-54) days. Predominant admission diagnoses were post-cardiac surgery, respiratory and cardiac diagnosis. A significant mean (SD) WFA Z-score increase of 0.48 (1.10) (P < 0.001) and a median (IQR) weight gain of 5.80 (3.28-9.04) g kg-1 day-1 was observed. Multivariate regression showed that a lower WFA Z-score at start was associated with a higher WFA Z-score increase during PE-formula use (β -0.35 (95% confidence interval = -0.50 to -0.19); P < 0.001). The maximum 24-h gastric residual volume was 8.1 mL (IQR = 2.2-14.3) for each 1 kg in bodyweight. Three (4%) infants were treated for diarrhoea and three infants were treated for vomiting. CONCLUSIONS The majority of infants with a prolonged PICU stay showed weight improvement when using PE-formula. PE-formula was well tolerated because gastrointestinal symptoms only occurred in few infants.
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- R D Eveleens
- Department of Paediatrics and Paediatric Surgery, Intensive Care Unit, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Paediatrics and Paediatric Surgery, Intensive Care Unit, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Paediatrics and Paediatric Surgery, Intensive Care Unit, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Department of Paediatrics, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Paediatrics and Paediatric Surgery, Intensive Care Unit, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Bertoldi J, Ferreira A, Scancetti L, Padilha P. Selection of quality indicators for nutritional therapy in pediatrics: a cross-sectional study conducted in Brazil. PeerJ 2018; 6:e4630. [PMID: 29719733 PMCID: PMC5926547 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2018] [Accepted: 03/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Background
Quality indicators for nutritional therapy (QINT) are important in assessing care and monitoring of resources. Among the 30 indicators proposed by International Life Sciences Institute, Brazil, there is still no evaluation of the most pertinent for Pediatrics.
Objective
To list the 10 main quality indicators for nutritional therapies (QINTs) for Pediatrics.
Methods
This was a two-phase cross-sectional study. Firstly, a questionnaire was answered by physicians, nutritionists, nurses, and pharmacists, all with having experience in nutritional therapy (NT) with Pediatrics, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Participants assessed four attributes of QINT by using the Likert scale. A Top 10 ranked QINT list for Pediatrics was established. To verify the consistency of the questionnaire, Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient was calculated. Secondly, the opinions of the participants on the results that were obtained were requested and the percentages of the positive responses were calculated.
Results
A total of 33 professionals participated in the first phase and 92% (n = 23 of 25) in the second phase approved the results of the selected indicators. Among the Top 10 QINTs, the three main ones were: #1: “Frequency of diarrhea in those patients on enteral nutrition” (mean = 13.194; α = 0.827); #2: “Frequency of dietary nutritional prescriptions upon the hospital discharge of the NT patients” (mean = 12.871; α = 0.822); #3: “Frequency of the NT patients who recovered their oral intake” (mean = 12.839; α = 0.859).
Conclusion
When considering the consistency and the concordance that were obtained, it can be suggested that the list of Top 10 QINTs as proposed in this study will help in the evaluation of NT quality indicators for Pediatrics.
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- Julia Bertoldi
- Laboratório de Ciências do Exercício, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Instituto de Puericultura e Pediatria Martagão Gesteira (IPPMG)/Programa de Residência Multiprofissional em Saúde da Criança e do Adolescente, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Instituto de Nutrição Josué de Castro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Instituto de Nutrição Josué de Castro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Instituto de Puericultura e Pediatria Martagão Gesteira (IPPMG)/Programa de Residência Multiprofissional em Saúde da Criança e do Adolescente, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Instituto de Nutrição Josué de Castro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Instituto de Puericultura e Pediatria Martagão Gesteira (IPPMG)/Programa de Residência Multiprofissional em Saúde da Criança e do Adolescente, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Cunningham CA, Gervais LB, Mazurak VC, Anand V, Garros D, Crick K, Larsen BMK. Adherence to a Nurse-Driven Feeding Protocol in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr 2017; 42:327-334. [PMID: 28196328 DOI: 10.1177/0148607117692751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2016] [Accepted: 01/14/2017] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Patients admitted to pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) often experience prolonged periods without nutrition support, which may result in hospital-induced malnutrition and longer length of stay. Nurse-driven feeding protocols have been developed to prevent unnecessary interruptions or delays to nutrition support. The primary objective of this study was to identify compliance and reasons for noncompliance to a feeding protocol at a tertiary care hospital PICU in Canada. The secondary aim was to determine the mean time (hours) spent without any form of nutrition and to identify reasons for time spent without nutrition. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a prospective cohort audit, consisting of 150 consecutive PICU admissions (January-February 2016). Exclusion criteria consisted of patient mortality within 48 hours (n = 1) and patients who were still admitted at the end of the data collection timeframe (n = 7). The remaining cohort consisted of 142 consecutive admissions. Data collection took place in real time and included patient demographics, diagnostic categories, time spent without nutrition, reasons for interruptions to nutrition support, and reasons for noncompliance to the protocol. Observations were obtained through paper and computer charts and conversing with clinicians. RESULTS There was a 95% compliance rate to the protocol and an average of 25.6 hours spent without nutrition per patient. The most prevalent reason for noncompliance was an avoidable delay to restart feeds before/after procedures or after surgery. CONCLUSIONS A nurse-driven feeding protocol may reduce time spent without nutrition. Future research is required to examine the relationship between adherence to feeding protocols and clinical outcomes.
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- Carmen A Cunningham
- Division of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Life, and Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Division of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Life, and Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Division of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Life, and Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Division of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Life, and Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.,Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.,Nutrition Services, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Guidelines for the Provision and Assessment of Nutrition Support Therapy in the Pediatric Critically Ill Patient: Society of Critical Care Medicine and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2017; 18:675-715. [PMID: 28691958 DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000001134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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This document represents the first collaboration between two organizations, American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and the Society of Critical Care Medicine, to describe best practices in nutrition therapy in critically ill children. The target of these guidelines is intended to be the pediatric (> 1 mo and < 18 yr) critically ill patient expected to require a length of stay greater than 2 or 3 days in a PICU admitting medical, surgical, and cardiac patients. In total, 2,032 citations were scanned for relevance. The PubMed/Medline search resulted in 960 citations for clinical trials and 925 citations for cohort studies. The EMBASE search for clinical trials culled 1,661 citations. In total, the search for clinical trials yielded 1,107 citations, whereas the cohort search yielded 925. After careful review, 16 randomized controlled trials and 37 cohort studies appeared to answer one of the eight preidentified question groups for this guideline. We used the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation criteria to adjust the evidence grade based on assessment of the quality of study design and execution. These guidelines are not intended for neonates or adult patients. The guidelines reiterate the importance of nutritional assessment, particularly the detection of malnourished patients who are most vulnerable and therefore potentially may benefit from timely intervention. There is a need for renewed focus on accurate estimation of energy needs and attention to optimizing protein intake. Indirect calorimetry, where feasible, and cautious use of estimating equations and increased surveillance for unintended caloric underfeeding and overfeeding are recommended. Optimal protein intake and its correlation with clinical outcomes are areas of great interest. The optimal route and timing of nutrient delivery is an area of intense debate and investigations. Enteral nutrition remains the preferred route for nutrient delivery. Several strategies to optimize enteral nutrition during critical illness have emerged. The role of supplemental parenteral nutrition has been highlighted, and a delayed approach appears to be beneficial. Immunonutrition cannot be currently recommended. Overall, the pediatric critical care population is heterogeneous, and a nuanced approach to individualizing nutrition support with the aim of improving clinical outcomes is necessary.
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Tume LN, Latten L, Kenworthy L. Paediatric intensive care nurses' decision-making around gastric residual volume measurement. Nurs Crit Care 2017. [PMID: 28640510 DOI: 10.1111/nicc.12304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Measuring gastric residual volume (GRV) to guide enteral feeding is a common nursing practice in intensive care units, yet little evidence supports this practice. In addition, this practice has been shown to potentially contribute to inadequate energy delivery in intensive care, which remains a problem in critically ill children. AIMS We aimed to explore paediatric intensive care nurses' decision-making surrounding this practice. METHODS This is a cross-sectional electronic survey in a single mixed general and cardiac surgical PICU in the UK. RESULTS The response rate was 59% (91/154), and responding nurses were experienced, with a mean PICU experience of 10·5 years (SD 8·09). The three main reasons for stopping or withholding enteral feeds were: the volume of GRV obtained (67%), the appearance of this gastric aspirate (40%) and the overall clinical condition of the child (23%). Most nurses reported checking GRV primarily to determine 'feed tolerance' (97%) as well as confirming feeding tube position (94%). Nurses' perceived harms from high GRV were: the risk of pulmonary aspiration (44%), malabsorption of feeds (20%) and the risk of vomiting (19%). GRV was measured frequently in this PICU, with 58% measuring GRV before every feed, 27% measuring every 4 h and 17% measuring every 6 h. The majority of nurses (84%) stated they would be worried or very worried if they could not measure GRV routinely. CONCLUSIONS PICU nurses' decision-making surrounding initiating and withholding enteral feeds and determining 'feed tolerance' remains heavily based on GRV. PICU nurses have significant fears around patient harm if they do not measure GRV routinely. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE This nursing practice is likely to be one of the factors that impair the delivery of enteral nutrition in critically ill children, and as such, its validity and usefulness needs to be challenged and studied in future research.
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- Lyvonne N Tume
- Alder Hey Children's NHS FT and University of Central Lancashire, Eaton Rd, Liverpool L12 2AP, UK
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- Alder Hey Children's NHS FT, Eaton Rd, Liverpool L12 2AP, UK
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Mehta NM, Skillman HE, Irving SY, Coss-Bu JA, Vermilyea S, Farrington EA, McKeever L, Hall AM, Goday PS, Braunschweig C. Guidelines for the Provision and Assessment of Nutrition Support Therapy in the Pediatric Critically Ill Patient: Society of Critical Care Medicine and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr 2017; 41:706-742. [DOI: 10.1177/0148607117711387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Nilesh M. Mehta
- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Clinical Nutrition Department, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- Division of Critical Care, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Section of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Division of Nutrition Therapy, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy, Betty H. Cameron Women’s and Children’s Hospital, New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Biostatistics, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Wong JJM, Cheifetz IM, Ong C, Nakao M, Lee JH. Nutrition Support for Children Undergoing Congenital Heart Surgeries: A Narrative Review. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg 2016; 6:443-54. [PMID: 26180163 DOI: 10.1177/2150135115576929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Energy imbalance in infants and children with congenital heart disease (CHD) is common and influenced by age, underlying cardiac diagnoses, and presence or absence of congestive heart failure. During the surgical hospitalization period, these children are prone to nutritional deterioration due to stress of surgery, anesthetic/perfusion techniques, and postoperative care. Poor nutrition is associated with increased perioperative morbidity and mortality. This review aims to examine various aspects of nutrition in critically ill children with CHD, including (1) energy expenditure, (2) perioperative factors that contribute to energy metabolism, (3) bedside practices that are potentially able to optimize nutrient delivery, and (4) medium- to long-term impact of energy balance on clinical outcomes. We propose a nutrition algorithm to optimize nutrition of these children in the perioperative period where improvements in nutrition status will likely impact surgical outcomes.
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- Judith J M Wong
- Department of Pediatric Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore
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- Department of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore
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- Department of Pediatric Subspecialties, Children's Intensive Care Unit, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore Office of Clinical Sciences, Duke-NUS Graduate School of Medicine, Singapore
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OBJECTIVE We aimed to review gastric dysmotility in critically ill children: 1) its pathophysiology, with a focus on critical care diseases and therapies that affect gastric motility, 2) diagnostic methodologies, and 3) current and future potential therapies. DATA SOURCES Eligible studies were identified from PubMed and MEDLINE. STUDY SELECTION Literature search included the following key terms: "gastric emptying," "gastric motility/dysmotility," "gastrointestinal motility/dysmotility," "nutrition intolerance," and "gastric residual volume." DATA EXTRACTION Studies since 1995 were extracted and reviewed for inclusion by the authors related to the physiology, pathophysiology, diagnostic methodologies, and available therapies for gastric emptying. DATA SYNTHESIS Delayed gastric emptying, a common presentation of gastric dysmotility, is present in up to 50% of critically ill children. It is associated with the potential for aspiration, ventilator-associated pneumonia, and inadequate delivery of enteral nutrition and may affect the efficacy of enteral medications, all of which may be result in poor patient outcomes. Gastric motility is affected by critical illness and its associated therapies. Currently available diagnostic tools to identify gastric emptying at the bedside have not been systematically studied and applied in this cohort. Gastric residual volume measurement, used as an indirect marker of delayed gastric emptying in PICUs around the world, may be inaccurate. CONCLUSIONS Gastric dysmotility is common in critically ill children and impacts patient safety and outcomes. However, it is poorly understood, inadequately defined, and current therapies are limited and based on scant evidence. Understanding gastric motility and developing accurate bedside measures and novel therapies for gastric emptying are highly desirable and need to be further investigated.
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Yoshimura S, Miyazu M, Yoshizawa S, So M, Kusama N, Hirate H, Sobue K. Efficacy of an enteral feeding protocol for providing nutritional support after paediatric cardiac surgery. Anaesth Intensive Care 2015; 43:587-93. [PMID: 26310408 DOI: 10.1177/0310057x1504300506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Enteral nutrition (EN) is considered to be a more appropriate method than parenteral feeding for providing nutrition to critically ill children. However, children who undergo cardiac surgery are at high risk of postoperative gastrointestinal complications during EN. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of our EN feeding protocol after paediatric cardiac surgery through comparison between a single-centre prospective case series and historical cases. Forty-seven children who were admitted to the ICU after cardiac surgery were enrolled ('post group'). Data for these children were compared with a similar cohort of children who were admitted before the implementation of the feeding protocol (n=62; 'pre group'). The incidence of complications including vomiting, necrotising enterocolitis and hypoglycaemia; the time until the initiation of EN; and the changes in calories provided were compared between the groups. The frequency of vomiting was significantly lower in the post group than in the pre group (36.2% versus 58.0%, P=0.038), and necrotising enterocolitis did not occur in either group. The time until the initiation of EN and the total calories provided did not differ significantly; however, in the post group the proportion of energy provided by parenteral nutrition was significantly smaller (P <0.001), and provided by EN was significantly larger (P=0.003), than in the pre group. The frequency of hypoglycaemia was similar in both groups. This study showed that our EN protocol resulted in adjustments to calories provided via EN versus parenteral nutrition after paediatric cardiac surgery, and reduced the frequency of vomiting.
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- S Yoshimura
- Anaesthetist, Department of Anesthesiology and Medical Crisis Management, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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- Anaesthetist, Department of Anesthesiology and Medical Crisis Management, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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- Research Assistant, Department of Anesthesiology and Medical Crisis Management, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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- Anaesthetist, Department of Anesthesiology and Medical Crisis Management, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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- Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Medical Crisis Management, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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- Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Medical Crisis Management, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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- Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Medical Crisis Management, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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Brown AM, Carpenter D, Keller G, Morgan S, Irving SY. Enteral Nutrition in the PICU: Current Status and Ongoing Challenges. J Pediatr Intensive Care 2015; 4:111-120. [PMID: 31110860 DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1559806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Malnutrition in the critically ill or injured child is associated with increased morbidities and mortality in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), whether present upon admission or acquired during the PICU stay. Particular subpopulations such as those with congenital heart disease or severe thermal injury are at highest risk for malnutrition which can worsen with illness progression. A growing body of evidence suggests the presence of a positive association between nutrition support during critical illness and patient outcomes. Enteral nutrition (EN), the preferred route of nutrient delivery, may be a crucial component of care provided in the PICU which modifies the response to critical illness or injury, resulting in improved outcomes. Numerous challenges exist in the delivery of the EN goal in critically ill children. These include accurate assessment of nutrient requirements, hemodynamic instability, feeding intolerance, feeding interruptions, and the lack of a standardized approach to nutrition support. This article describes the current state of the science and challenges related to EN prescription and delivery in the critically ill child. Suggestions for improving EN practice are then presented, in addition to a platform for further research inquiry.
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- Ann-Marie Brown
- School of Nursing, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, United States.,Division of Critical Care, Akron Children's Hospital, Akron, Ohio, United States
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- Department of Food Service and Nutrition, Akron Children's Hospital, Akron, Ohio, United States
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- Department of Food Service and Nutrition, Akron Children's Hospital, Akron, Ohio, United States
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- Biomedical Library, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Department of Nursing, Critical Care, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.,School of Nursing, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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OBJECTIVE To identify and prioritize research questions of concern to the practice of pediatric critical care nursing practice. DESIGN One-day consensus conference. By using a conceptual framework by Benner et al describing domains of practice in critical care nursing, nine international nurse researchers presented state-of-the-art lectures. Each identified knowledge gaps in their assigned practice domain and then poised three research questions to fill that gap. Then, meeting participants prioritized the proposed research questions using an interactive multivoting process. SETTING Seventh World Congress on Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care in Istanbul, Turkey. PARTICIPANTS Pediatric critical care nurses and nurse scientists attending the open consensus meeting. INTERVENTIONS Systematic review, gap analysis, and interactive multivoting. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS The participants prioritized 27 nursing research questions in nine content domains. The top four research questions were 1) identifying nursing interventions that directly impact the child and family's experience during the withdrawal of life support, 2) evaluating the long-term psychosocial impact of a child's critical illness on family outcomes, 3) articulating core nursing competencies that prevent unstable situations from deteriorating into crises, and 4) describing the level of nursing education and experience in pediatric critical care that has a protective effect on the mortality and morbidity of critically ill children. CONCLUSIONS The consensus meeting was effective in organizing pediatric critical care nursing knowledge, identifying knowledge gaps and in prioritizing nursing research initiatives that could be used to advance nursing science across world regions.
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OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of implementing an enteral nutrition algorithm on achieving optimal enteral nutrition delivery in the PICU. DESIGN Prospective pre/post implementation audit of enteral nutrition practices. SETTING One 29-bed medical/surgical PICU in a freestanding, university-affiliated children's hospital. PATIENTS Consecutive patients admitted to the PICU over two 4-week periods pre and post implementation, with a stay of more than 24 hours who received enteral nutrition. INTERVENTIONS Based on the results of our previous study, we developed and systematically implemented a stepwise, evidence and consensus-based algorithm for initiating, advancing, and maintaining enteral nutrition in critically ill children. Three months after implementation, we prospectively recorded clinical characteristics, nutrient delivery, enteral nutrition interruptions, parenteral nutrition use, and ability to reach energy goal in eligible children over a 4-week period. Clinical and nutritional variables were compared between the pre and postintervention cohorts. Time to achieving energy goal was analyzed using Kaplan-Meier statistical analysis. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Eighty patients were eligible for this study and were compared to a cohort of 80 patients in the preimplementation audit. There were no significant differences in median age, gender, need for mechanical ventilation, time to initiating enteral nutrition, or use of postpyloric feeding between the two cohorts. We recorded a significant decrease in the number of avoidable episodes of enteral nutrition interruption (3 vs 51, p < 0.0001) and the prevalence and duration of parenteral nutrition dependence in patients with avoidable enteral nutrition interruptions in the postintervention cohort. Median time to reach energy goal decreased from 4 days to 1 day (p < 0.0001), with a higher proportion of patients reaching this goal (99% vs 61%, p = 0.01). CONCLUSIONS The implementation of an enteral nutrition algorithm significantly improved enteral nutrition delivery and decreased reliance on parenteral nutrition in critically ill children. Energy intake goal was reached earlier in a higher proportion of patients.
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de Betue CTI, van Steenselen WN, Hulst JM, Olieman JF, Augustus M, Mohd Din SH, Verbruggen SCAT, Tibboel D, Joosten KFM. Achieving energy goals at day 4 after admission in critically ill children; predictive for outcome? Clin Nutr 2014; 34:115-22. [PMID: 24576820 DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2014.01.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2014] [Accepted: 01/28/2014] [Indexed: 12/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS Adequate nutritional intake is essential during pediatric intensive care admission. We investigated whether achievement of energy intake goals at day 4 after admission and route of nutrition were associated with improved outcome. METHODS Observational study using prospectively acquired data. Patients receiving enteral and/or parenteral nutrition were included. The energy intake target range at day 4 after admission was 90-110% of resting energy expenditure +10%. Acute malnutrition was defined as weight-for-age <-2 SD. Clinical outcome measures were length of stay, days on ventilator, duration of antibiotics and number of new infections. Data as median (min-max). RESULTS Of 325 subjects (age 0.14 (0.0-18.0) year), 19% were acutely malnourished upon admission. Median 86% of energy goals were administered via the enteral route. With enteral energy intake, 7% of patients were fed within the target range, 50% were fed below and 43% were fed above the target range. In a subgroup (n = 223) the acutely malnourished proportion at discharge (26%) was not significantly different from that upon admission (22%). Whether the energy intake was below, within or above the target range did not affect changes in clinical outcome, nor did the route of nutrition. CONCLUSIONS Acute malnutrition was highly prevalent upon admission and at discharge. With our nutritional protocol we achieved high rates of (enteral) energy intake. A high percentage of our population received enteral energy above the target energy range. However, there was no association between the amount of energy intake or route of nutrition and clinical outcome.
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- C T I de Betue
- Intensive Care and Department of Pediatric Surgery, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Intensive Care, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Dietetics, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Intensive Care, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biostatistics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Intensive Care, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Intensive Care, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Intensive Care, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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A Canadian survey of perceived barriers to initiation and continuation of enteral feeding in PICUs. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2014; 15:e49-55. [PMID: 24196008 DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000000016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Clinicians believe nutrition support is important; however, delivery of enteral nutrition may be delayed or interrupted due to a lack of guidelines or perceived contraindications to administration. The aim of this national survey was to examine the knowledge and perceived barriers among clinicians which prevent enteral nutrition administration to PICU patients. DESIGN The survey consisted of 23 questions (19 primary and four branching). The survey was validated using a semistructured pilot test by three pediatric critical care intensivists and two pediatric critical care registered dietitians external to the study team. SETTING The survey was electronically distributed to clinicians in all PICUs across Canada. POPULATION One hundred sixty-two PICU clinicians, including 96 staff intensivists, eight clinical assistants, 36 fellows, and 22 registered dietitians from PICUs across Canada. INTERVENTIONS None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS The survey was administered from January to March 2013. The response rate was 50% (55 staff intensivists, two clinical assistants, nine fellows, and 15 registered dietitians). There was high variability among clinicians regarding reasons to delay the onset of enteral nutrition or interrupt enteral nutrition administration. High variability (> 70% agreement and < 10% disagreement or vice versa) was found for some reasons to delay or interrupt enteral nutrition, including lactates (rising or > 2 or > 4 mmol/L), high gastric residual volumes, CT/MRI scans, and hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Sixty-eight percent of PICU clinicians reported no written feeding protocol to be in place. CONCLUSIONS Overall, there is high variability among clinicians regarding acceptable procedural and clinical barriers to enteral nutrition administration; this may be improved by a standardized feeding protocol. Therefore, further research must be conducted to provide clinicians with evidence to support their practices for enteral nutrition administration.
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Keehn A, O'Brien C, Mazurak V, Brunet-Wood K, Joffe A, de Caen A, Larsen B. Epidemiology of interruptions to nutrition support in critically ill children in the pediatric intensive care unit. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr 2013; 39:211-7. [PMID: 24285250 DOI: 10.1177/0148607113513800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND 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). METHODS Data were prospectively collected to describe the patient cohort (anthropometrics and diagnostic category) and nutrition practices (time to nutrition initiation; frequency, duration, and causes of interruptions; and overall caloric intake). Descriptive statistics were used; comparisons of groups were performed using an independent t test and P < .05 as significance. RESULTS The mean (standard deviation) time to nutrition initiation was 22.8 (16.6) hours following admission; 35% of patients were initiated after >24 hours. Nutrition was interrupted 1.2 (2.0) times per patient. Time spent without nutrition due to interruptions was 11.6 (23.0) hours, up to 102 hours. Patients spent 42.4% (28.2%) of their median (range) PICU admission of 2.9 days (0.25-39 days) without any form of nutrition. Patients aged 0-6 months had a significantly higher mean number and duration of interruptions (P = .001 and P < .001, respectively) compared with children >6 months. Interruptions due to surgery and planned extubation lasted significantly longer than all other interruptions (P < .001 and P = .001, respectively). Pediatric Risk of Mortality (PRISM) III scores were not correlated with percentage of length of stay spent without nutrition (r = 0.137). CONCLUSIONS 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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- Alysha Keehn
- University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Stollery Children's Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Stollery Children's Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Stollery Children's Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Wong JJM, Ong C, Han WM, Lee JH. Protocol-driven enteral nutrition in critically ill children: a systematic review. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr 2013; 38:29-39. [PMID: 24072738 DOI: 10.1177/0148607113502811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Enteral nutrition (EN) protocols are thought to improve clinical outcomes in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU); however, critical evaluation of their efficacy is limited. We conducted a systematic review with the aim of assessing the effect of EN protocols on important clinical outcomes in these children. We searched MEDLINE, Cochrane Database for Reviews, Embase, and CINAHL using predetermined keywords and MESH terms. We included randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies that involved EN protocols in children admitted to the PICU for >24 hours. We included studies that reported at least 1 of our outcomes of interest. Studies that exclusively studied premature neonates or adults were excluded. Primary outcomes were PICU or hospital mortality, PICU or hospital length of stay (LOS), duration of mechanical ventilation, gastrointestinal (GI) complications, and infective complications. Secondary outcomes were time to initiate feeds and time to achieve goal feeds. In total, we included 9 studies (total 1564 children) in our systematic review (1 RCT, 4 before-and-after studies, 1 single-arm cohort study, 1 prospective descriptive study, and 2 audits). There is low-level evidence that the use of EN protocols is associated with a reduction in GI and infective complications and improved timeliness of feed initiation and achievement of goal feeds. Current medical literature does not have compelling data on the effects of an EN protocol on clinical outcomes among critically ill children. Future clinical trials should look into using standardized interventions and outcome measures to strengthen the existing evidence.
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- Judith Ju-Ming Wong
- Department of Pediatric Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore
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Leong AY, Field CJ, Larsen BM. Nutrition support of the postoperative cardiac surgery child. Nutr Clin Pract 2013; 28:572-9. [PMID: 23921299 DOI: 10.1177/0884533613497515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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There may be a correlation in critically ill children between the accuracy of estimated energy requirement and infection, mortality, and length of stay. Historically, energy needs were estimated using predictive equations with stress factor adjustments. The purpose of this review is to evaluate the evidence for indirect calorimetry, predictive equations, and other clinical indicators (ie, patient outcomes) to estimate energy requirements of the postoperative, critically ill, cardiac infant. Consistent with current guidelines, indirect calorimetry provides the best estimate of energy requirements for critically ill children. Predictive equations are unreliable, either over- or underestimate energy requirements, and do not take into account the metabolic changes that occur in the postoperative cardiac infant. To address the changing metabolic state throughout the course of illness, clinicians need to individualize recommendations by implementing frequent indirect calorimetry measurements at bedside. Actual energy delivery to the postoperative cardiac surgery child in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) can be further hindered by many procedural and patient barriers. The provision of appropriate caloric requirements may help clinicians correct the metabolic state and promote recovery and anabolism. Therefore, optimizing nutrition intake of the postoperative, cardiac surgical child requires a paradigm shift toward individualized nutrition prescription, in the context of a PICU-specific feeding algorithm.
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- Amanda Y Leong
- Bodil M. Larsen, Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Units, Stollery Children's Hospital, Office: 3G1.23, 8215-112 St NW, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2C8, Canada.
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Provision of optimal nutritional support to children in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is important for optimizing nutritional management, yet challenging because of a variety of factors. Previous nutritional status, degree of malnutrition, and variability in disease states differ significantly among PICU patients. Although there are numerous benefits for enteral nutrition (EN) in critically ill children, obstacles exist within the PICU that prevent the initiation and delivery of appropriate EN and parenteral nutritional (PN) support. Evidence-based nutrition care guidelines have been established to promote optimal nutrition support practice in PICU patients, including identification of those at greatest nutritional risk, initiating EN or PN in a timely manner, and providing EN as the preferred nutrition support modality for children with a functioning gastrointestinal tract. Strategies can be implemented to minimize avoidable delays or interruptions to the optimal delivery of PN and EN, including establishing nutrition support guidelines to promote consistency in practice, promoting clear and consistent communication among the PICU team via direct communication, unit rounds, and the medical record. The education of frontline PICU staff by trained professionals such as pediatric registered dietitians board certified in pediatric nutrition or nutrition support practice can also help promote improved nutritional support practice and outcomes. Specific strategies to optimize nutritional support and EN initiation and delivery at the author’s institution are also presented.
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- Ana Abad-Jorge
- Department of Nutrition Services, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia
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The aim of the present study was to describe the present knowledge of healthcare professionals and the practices surrounding enteral feeding in the UK and Irish paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and propose recommendations for practice and research. A cross-sectional (thirty-four item) survey was sent to all PICU listed in the Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANET) database (http://www.picanet.org.uk) in November 2010. The overall PICU response rate was 90 % (27/30 PICU; 108 individual responses in total). The overall breakdown of the professional groups was 59 % nursing staff (most were children's nurses), 27 % medical staff, 13 % dietitians and 1 % physician assistants. Most units (96 %) had some written guidance (although brief and generic) on enteral nutrition (EN); 85 % of staff, across all professional groups (P= 0.672), thought that guidelines helped to improve energy delivery in the PICU. Factors contributing to reduced energy delivery included: fluid-restrictive policies (60 %), the child just being 'too ill' to feed (17 %), surgical post-operative orders (16 %), nursing staff being too slow in starting feeds (7 %), frequent procedures requiring fasting (7 %) and haemodynamic instability (7 %). What constituted an 'acceptable' level of gastric residual volume (GRV) varied markedly across respondents, but GRV featured prominently in the decision to both stop EN and to determine feed tolerance and was similar for all professional groups. There was considerable variation across respondents about which procedures required fasting and the duration of this fasting. The present survey has highlighted the variability of the present enteral feeding practices across the UK and Ireland, particularly with regard to the use of GRV and fasting for procedures. The present study highlights a number of recommendations for both practice and research.
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Geukers VG, de Neef M, Dijsselhof ME, Sauerwein HP, Bos AP. Effect of a nurse-driven feeding algorithm and the institution of a nutritional support team on energy and macronutrient intake in critically ill children. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eclnm.2011.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Geukers VG, Li Z, Ackermans MT, Bos AP, Jinfeng L, Sauerwein HP. High-carbohydrate/low-protein-induced hyperinsulinemia does not improve protein balance in children after cardiac surgery. Nutrition 2012; 28:644-50. [PMID: 22261573 DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2011.09.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2011] [Revised: 07/03/2011] [Accepted: 09/27/2011] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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OBJECTIVE In pediatric cardiac surgery, fluid-restricted low-protein (LoProt) diets account for cumulative protein deficits with increased morbidity. In this setting, we aimed to inhibit proteolysis by a high-carbohydrate (HiCarb)-intake-induced hyperinsulinemia and improve protein balance. METHODS The effect of a HiCarb/LoProt (glucose 10 mg · kg(-1) · min(-1)/protein 0.7 g · kg(-1) · d(-1)) versus a normal-carbohydrate (NormCarb)/LoProt (glucose 7.5 mg · kg(-1) · min(-1)/protein 0.3 g · kg(-1) · d(-1)) enteral diet on whole-body protein breakdown and balance was compared in a prospective, randomized, single-blinded trial in 24 children after cardiac surgery. On the second postoperative day, plasma insulin and amino acid concentrations, protein breakdown (endogenous rate of appearance of valine), protein synthesis (non-oxidative disposal of valine), protein balance, and the rate of appearance of urea were measured by using an isotopic infusion of [1-(13)C]valine and [(15)N(2)]urea. RESULTS The HiCarb/LoProt diet led to a serum insulin concentration that was three times higher than the NormCarb/LoProt diet (596 pmol/L, 80-1833, and 198 pmol/L, 76-1292, respectively, P = 0.02), without differences in plasma glucose concentrations. There were no differences in plasma amino acid concentrations, non-oxidative disposal of valine, and endogenous rate of appearance of valine between the groups, with a negative valine balance in the two groups (-0.65 μmol · kg(-1) · min(-1), -1.91 to 0.01, and -0.58 μmol · kg(-1) · min(-1), -2.32 to -0.07, respectively, P = 0.71). The serum cortisol concentration in the HiCarb/LoProt group was lower compared with the NormCarb/LoProt group (204 nmol/L, 50-544, and 532 nmol/L, 108-930, respectively, P = 0.02). CONCLUSION In children with fluid restriction after cardiac surgery, a HiCarb/LoProt diet compared with a NormCarb/LoProt diet stimulates insulin secretion but does not inhibit proteolysis further and therefore cannot be advocated for this purpose.
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- Vincent G Geukers
- Pediatric Intensive Care Department, Emma Children's Hospital/Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Scholes J, Albarran J. What's in this issue? Nurs Crit Care 2011; 15:273-4. [PMID: 21040255 DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-5153.2010.00433.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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