Prevention of refeeding syndrome: Evaluation of an enteral refeeding protocol for severely undernourished children.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Refeeding syndrome (RS) defines the deleterious clinical and metabolic changes occurring during nutritional support of severely malnourished patients. Pediatric guidelines to prevent and treat RS are scarce and highly variable. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of an enteral refeeding protocol in severely undernourished hospitalized children with anorexia nervosa (AN) or organic diseases (OD).

Methods

This ancillary study to the Preventing Malnutrition and Restoring Nutritional Status in Hospitalized Children (PREDIRE) trial (NCT01081587), included severely undernourished children hospitalized between January 2010 and June 2018 and treated with an enteral refeeding protocol drafted for the study. The effectiveness was assessed by weight gai

SUBMITTER: Abbas F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11959107 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature