Prolonging small feeding volumes early in life decreases the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis in very low birth weight infants

Pediatrics

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 529-534

  Berseth, Carol Lynn ^a,b   Bisquera, Jennifer A ^a   Paje, Virna U ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Mead Johnson Nutritionals   (United States)

Author keywords

Enteral feeding; Necrotizing enterocolitis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE MOTILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATURATION; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; SEPSIS; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ENTERAL NUTRITION; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTRINS; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT FOOD; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MOTILIN; NEONATOLOGY; PERISTALSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0037341091     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.111.3.529     Document Type: Article

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