Continued Enteral Feeding Is Beneficial in Hypoglycemic Infants Admitted to Intensive Care for Parenteral Dextrose Therapy

• Main Authors: Mahdi Alsaleem MD (Author), Lina Saadeh MD (Author), Vasantha H. S. Kumar MD (Author), Gregory E. Wilding PhD (Author), Lorin Miller MA (Author), Bobby Mathew MD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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There is variability in practice among care providers on feeding infants admitted with neonatal hypoglycemia (NH) for parenteral dextrose. We compared clinical outcomes in infants who were fed (NH-Fed) and hypoglycemic infants who were kept nothing per os (NPO) (NH-NPO) at the time of initiation of...