Outcome of Infants Discharged Home from the Neonatal Unit with Partial Nasogastric Feeds
Shivani Kamal,
Indira Chandrasekar
Abstract:Aim: In our previous publication, we proposed an algorithm for safely discharging infants from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) on partial nasogastric feeds (NGF), thus avoiding gastrostomy tube placement (GTP) for infants who were unable to take full oral feeds. This follow up study post intervention, is to determine the number of patients discharged home on partial nasogastric (NG) feeds, the effectiveness of this intervention measured by reaching full oral feeds within 3 months of discharge and paren… Show more
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