Noninvasive Ventilation and Rapid Enteral Feeding Advances in Preterm Infants-2-Year Follow-Up of the STENA-Cohort.

ABSTRACT: The importance of nutritional supply for somatic growth and neurodevelopmental outcome in very-low-birthweight infants is an established medical strategy for reducing long-term morbidities. Our cohort study on rapid enteral feeding advances using a standardized protocol (STENA) previously demonstrated a 4-day reduction of parenteral nutrition. STENA did not impede the success of noninvasive ventilations strategies but significantly less infants required mechanical ventilation. Most importantly, STENA resulted in improved somatic growth at 36 weeks of gestation. Here, we evaluated our cohort for psychomotor outcomes and somatic growth at 2 years of age. n = 218 infants of the original cohort were followed-up (74.4%). Z-scores for weight and length did not differ but the benefits of S

SUBMITTER: Behnke J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10005522 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature