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Journal of Pediatric Health Care and Medicine Volume 1, Issue 1
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September 11-12, 2017 Los Angeles, CA, USA
14th World Pediatrics &
Neonatal Healthcare Conference
Pediatrics & Neonatal Healthcare 2017
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Efficacy of standardized feeding protocol for preterm infants
Although it is universally accepted that infants who are delivered prematurely require nutritional support to
survive, the published evidence lacks clear indications of the best method of delivery, substrate use, timing
or appropriate outcome measures to evaluate nutritional support. In the absence of published or widely accepted
guidelines regarding nutritional support strategies for preterm infants, most institutions have developed their
own guidelines for nutrition management and nutrition practices vary widely. We planned to assess the efficacy
of a newly introduced standardized feeding protocol for preterm infants (<1800 g) in our hospital. These groups
were stratified into 3 categories based on weight (i.e. <1000 g, 1000-1500 g and >1500 g). We calculated the
number of days to regain birth weight and the number of days on TPN in both the groups to assess if there was
any statistically significant difference between the pre-intervention and post intervention group. There was no
statistically significant difference in the number of days to regain birth weight in any of the groups, and in the
number of days on TPN noted in the <1000 g and >1500 g weight categories between the pre-intervention and the
post- intervention group. However, there was a statistically significant difference (p<0.05) in the number of days
on TPN in the 1000 g-1500 g weight category between the pre-intervention and the post- intervention groups.
With this study, we can state that the implementation of a standardized feeding protocol in the NICU is efficient
in terms of decreasing the number of days on TPN in preterm infants between 1000g and 1500 g.
Biography
Hamza Abbasi is a third-year Pediatric Resident at The Unterberg Children’s Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center. He has completed his MBBS from Alfaisal
University School of Medicine in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2014. He has been involved in multiple clinical research projects since 2011 and plans on continuing
to play a role in optimizing health care via research in the future throughout his career as a Primary pediatrician.
Hamza Abbasi
Unterberg Children’s Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center, USA