Tracking Nutritional Protein Management in the Preterm Infant Using Vermont‐Oxford Benchmarks (LB318)
| Autor: | Lynn Mayberry, Sue Wolf |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry health care facilities manpower and services Incidence (epidemiology) education Vermont oxford network University hospital Protein intake Biochemistry Low birth weight Genetics Medicine Tracking (education) medicine.symptom business Molecular Biology Biotechnology |
| Zdroj: | The FASEB Journal. 28 |
| ISSN: | 1530-6860 0892-6638 |
| Popis: | Background: Extrauterine growth failure occurs in 80 to 100% of extremely low birth weight infants, and it is recognized that these infants require more protein than has typically been provided to them in the NICU. This is of particular concern, as poor NICU growth is associated with poor developmental outcome. However, there is a need to balance providing higher protein intake with the metabolic consequences of doing so. Over the past 7 years, we have instituted practices to improve protein intake in our preterm infants and have used the Vermont Oxford Network (VON) data as a benchmark to evaluate our success. Objective: To describe the impact of nutritional strategies to increase protein intake on growth and clinical outcomes in preterm infants. Methods: Data was collected from Northshore University Hospital (NS), a Level 3 NICU in suburban Chicago. Growth outcomes and the incidence of NEC were recorded from 2006-2013 (avg. 586 patients/year) and compared to data from Level 3 NICU’s in the VON. Increasi... |
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