TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Enteral Nutrition in the Critically ill Child A1 - Skillman, Heather E. A2 - Goday, Praveen S. A2 - Mehta, Nilesh M. PY - 2015 T2 - Pediatric Critical Care Nutrition AB - Enteral nutrition (EN) is the preferred method of nutrition support in critically ill children, as parenteral nutrition (PN) is associated with increased costs, infections, and other complications.1 Enteral feeding is tolerated by most pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) patients and can effectively meet energy and protein goals. The time from admission to initiation, route, composition, and cumulative intake of EN have the potential to positively influence the course of critical illness. Multiple obstacles to enteral feeding are common to the PICU environment; these must be anticipated and minimized to achieve improved outcomes with EN therapy. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1105178982 ER -