Understanding parenteral nutrition. A basis for neonatal nursing care.
The challenge in meeting the caloric and metabolic demands of infants who are critically ill, debilitated, or neurophysically immature is discussed. Advances in nutrition that have greatly improved neonatal survival are presented. Intravenous nutrition is presented as an appropriate mode of therapy to provide or supplement nutritional support in neonates who cannot derive all the requirements from oral feedings.
D005526:Food, Formulated; D006801:Humans; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000451:nursing / Q000628:therapy*; D009751:Nutritional Requirements; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition; D010289:Parenteral Nutrition, Total; D014882:Water-Electrolyte Balance