Failure of Delayed Oral Feedings to Prevent Necrotizing Enterocolitis

Gastrointestinal Priming Prior to Full Enteral Nutrition in Very Low Birth Weight Infants

“…TPN GI Priming (22,23). In our investigation, there was no difference between Gl-primed and TPN infants in incidence of NEC.…”

Gastrointestinal Priming Prior to Full Enteral Nutrition in Very Low Birth Weight Infants

“…TPN GI Priming (22,23). In our investigation, there was no difference between Gl-primed and TPN infants in incidence of NEC.…”

Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Saudi Arabia: Experience in a Referral Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

“…This impression had earlier been made by other workers who studied the effect of early feeding on premature infants. 14,15 Moreover, two of our patients who did not receive any enteral alimentation developed the disease in its most severe form. In a composite review of six studies involving 537 infants with NEC, Kliegman and Fanaroff found that 6.8% of the patients had never been fed.…”

Risk Factors That May Predispose Premature Infants to Increased Incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis

“…Previous studies focusing on the prevention of NEC with gut priming are inconsistent. 7,28 Although other stud-ies could not correlate gut priming with reducing the risk for NEC, 29,30 a study by LaGamma et al 28 showed that very low birth weight infants receiving TPN and gut priming initiated within 4 days of life had significantly less NEC than infants who were on TPN and remained NPO for the first 14 days of life (22% vs 60%; P = .02). Berseth et al 7 showed that infants who received a prolonged gut priming for 10 days had significantly less NEC than infants whose feedings were advanced by 20 mL/kg/d (1.4% vs 10%; P = .03).…”

Gastrointestinal Priming Prior to Full Enteral Nutrition in Very Low Birth Weight Infants

“…TPN GI Priming (22,23). In our investigation, there was no difference between Gl-primed and TPN infants in incidence of NEC.…”

Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Saudi Arabia: Experience in a Referral Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

“…This impression had earlier been made by other workers who studied the effect of early feeding on premature infants. 14,15 Moreover, two of our patients who did not receive any enteral alimentation developed the disease in its most severe form. In a composite review of six studies involving 537 infants with NEC, Kliegman and Fanaroff found that 6.8% of the patients had never been fed.…”

Risk Factors That May Predispose Premature Infants to Increased Incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis

“…Previous studies focusing on the prevention of NEC with gut priming are inconsistent. 7,28 Although other stud-ies could not correlate gut priming with reducing the risk for NEC, 29,30 a study by LaGamma et al 28 showed that very low birth weight infants receiving TPN and gut priming initiated within 4 days of life had significantly less NEC than infants who were on TPN and remained NPO for the first 14 days of life (22% vs 60%; P = .02). Berseth et al 7 showed that infants who received a prolonged gut priming for 10 days had significantly less NEC than infants whose feedings were advanced by 20 mL/kg/d (1.4% vs 10%; P = .03).…”

Gastrointestinal Priming Prior to Full Enteral Nutrition in Very Low Birth Weight Infants

“…TPN GI Priming (22,23). In our investigation, there was no difference between Gl-primed and TPN infants in incidence of NEC.…”

Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Saudi Arabia: Experience in a Referral Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

“…This impression had earlier been made by other workers who studied the effect of early feeding on premature infants. 14,15 Moreover, two of our patients who did not receive any enteral alimentation developed the disease in its most severe form. In a composite review of six studies involving 537 infants with NEC, Kliegman and Fanaroff found that 6.8% of the patients had never been fed.…”

Risk Factors That May Predispose Premature Infants to Increased Incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis

“…Previous studies focusing on the prevention of NEC with gut priming are inconsistent. 7,28 Although other stud-ies could not correlate gut priming with reducing the risk for NEC, 29,30 a study by LaGamma et al 28 showed that very low birth weight infants receiving TPN and gut priming initiated within 4 days of life had significantly less NEC than infants who were on TPN and remained NPO for the first 14 days of life (22% vs 60%; P = .02). Berseth et al 7 showed that infants who received a prolonged gut priming for 10 days had significantly less NEC than infants whose feedings were advanced by 20 mL/kg/d (1.4% vs 10%; P = .03).…”