Improved Weight Gain in Very-low-birth-weight Infants After the Introduction of a Self-created Computer Calculation Program for Individualized Parenteral Nutrition

Improved Weight Gain in Very-low-birth-weight Infants After the Introduction of a Self-created Computer Calculation Program for Individualized Parenteral Nutrition

Although 90% of babies <1500 g (very-low-birth-weight or VLBW) are appropriate for gestational age (AGA) at birth, almost all are small for gestational age at 36 weeks of gestation, mainly due to nutritional deficiency in the first weeks of life. A computer calculation program (CCP) to calculate...

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Main Authors: Maria Gnigler, Bernhard Schlenz, Ursula Kiechl-Kohlendorfer, Mario Rüdiger, Salvador Navarro-Psihas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-02-01
Series:Pediatrics and Neonatology
Subjects:
growth retardation
parenteral nutrition
small for gestational age
very-low-birth-weight infant
weight gain
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875957213001149

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