Enteral nutrition practices in preterm infants in the neonatal unit of a public matenity ward
Práticas de nutrição enteral em recém-nascidos prematuros da unidade neonatal de uma maternidade pública
Mundo Saúde (Online); 42 (3), 2018
Publication year: 2018
The aim of the study was to evaluate the practices of enteral nutrition therapy in preterm infants. This is a longitudinal observational study where all preterm infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit were prospectively followed from April to August 2012.
The following nutrition practices were analyzed:
time of enteral nutrition therapy initiation, time to achieve full enteral nutrition (120kcal/kg/day), complications related to enteral nutrition therapy, type of diet at the start of enteral trophic nutrition and type of diet at hospital discharge. The Pearson correlation was used to assess the degree of correlation between two continuous variables, where the statistical significance level was considered as p-value < 0.001). There was a positive correlation (r = 0.41, p < 20ml/kg/day). There is still a wide variation in the nutritional approach to premature newborns. Therefore, building nutritional protocols and establishing a multidisciplinary nutritional therapy team have been suggested in the literature.
O objetivo do estudo foi avaliar as práticas de terapia nutricional enteral em recém-nascidos prematuros. Estudo observacional longitudinal onde foram acompanhados prospectivamente todos os recém-nascidos prematuros internados na UTI neonatal no período de abril a agosto de 2012.