Continuous Versus Intermittent Nutrition in Pediatric Intensive Care Patients: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intermittent fasting is a time-restricted feeding strategy with proven health benefits, which is based on multiple metabolic and endocrine changes, in several patient populations and healthy participants. In the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), artificial feeding is usually administered 24 hours a day, although solid evidence supporting this practice is lacking. This discards the potential benefits of fasting in this population. We hypothesize that intermittent nutrition with a focus on an overnight feeding interruption (intermittent fasting), as compared with 24-hour continuous nutrition, is a feasible and safe strategy, with potential benefits, for critically ill children.

Objective

The aim of the Continuous versus Intermittent Nutrition in Pediatric Intens

SUBMITTER: Veldscholte K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9264130 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature