Early Enteral Nutrition Is Associated With Improved Clinical Outcomes in Critically Ill Children: A Secondary Analysis of Nutrition Support in the Heart and Lung Failure-Pediatric Insulin Titration Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The impact of early enteral nutrition on clinical outcomes in critically ill children has not been adequately described. We hypothesized that early enteral nutrition is associated with improved clinical outcomes in critically ill children.

Design

Secondary analysis of the Heart and Lung Failure-Pediatric Insulin Titration randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Thirty-five PICUs.

Patients

Critically ill children with hyperglycemia requiring inotropic support and/or invasive mechanical ventilation who were enrolled for at least 48 hours with complete nutrition data.

Interventions

Subjects received nutrition via guidelines that emphasized enteral nutrition and were classified into early enteral nutrition (enteral nutrition within 48 hr of study ran

SUBMITTER: Srinivasan V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7060827 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature