RT Book, Section
A1 Hair, Amy B.
A1 Anderson, Diane M.
A2 Kline, Mark W.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182916649
T1 Postdischarge Nutrition for the Premature Infant
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259588594
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182916649
RD 2024/10/12
AB Nutrition  for  the  premature  infant  following  discharge  from  the  neonatal  intensive  care  unit  (NICU)  varies  based  on  risk  factors  such  as  gestational  age,  birth  weight  (BW),  occurrence  of  postnatal  complications  that  affect  nutrition  (such  as  bowel  resection  for  necrotizing  enterocolitis),  and  the  need  for  specialized  nutritional  supplementation  caused  by  an  inability  to  take  adequate  calories  resulting  from  either  volume  limitation  or  inability  to  feed  by  mouth.  Feeding  issues  are  discussed  in  Chapter  23,  and  specialized  nutritional  support  is  discussed  in  Chapter  25.  This  chapter  discusses  the  special  postdischarge  nutritional  needs  of  infants  born  <37  weeks  gestation.