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Title : Supplemental parenteral nutrition in pediatric intensive care unit of Cairo University Children Hospital
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Abstract
Nutritional support for patients in the intensive-care unit is a part of standard care which promotes medical quality and decreases nosocomial infection. Supplemental parenteral nutrition approach (enteral nutrition combined with parenteral nutrition when enteral nutrition alone is insufficient) has become one major concern in nutrition research field. Aim of the work: To evaluate the role of supplemental parenteral nutrition in pediatric intensive care unit in reducing nosocomial infection and to evaluate the effect of early and late SPN length of hospital stay.Method: a prospective study was conducted in patients who met the inclusion criteria from March 2016 to August 2016 in pediatric intensive care unit. Patients were classified into two groups according to nutrition delivery approach-SPN group and EN alone group. Then SPN group were further divided into two subgroups by initiation timing (early-initiation SPN and late-initiation SPN group).STRONG kids method used to evaluate nutrition risk in patients.PRISM ш score used to assess severity of disease. Nosocomial infection and outcome were recorded