To (enterally) feed or not to feed (the infant with hypoplastic left heart syndrome) is no longer the question

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 431-432

  Torres, Adalberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital heart defects; Necrotizing enterocolitis; Nutrition; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

BREAST MILK; CALORIC INTAKE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ENTERIC FEEDING; HIGH RISK INFANT; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT NUTRITION; MESENTERY BLOOD FLOW; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NORWOOD PROCEDURE; NUTRITIONAL INTOLERANCE; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PATIENT MONITORING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION;

EID: 77952301497     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e3181ce6cb5     Document Type: Editorial

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