Feeding the infant with congenital heart disease in PICU

Malnutrition

Nutrition & Disease Management

15.07.2018

Adequate nutrition is vital in children with congenital heart disease. The fear of feeding these children are rooted from concomitant prostaglandin infusion; single ventricle physiology; gut ischaemia.

Evidence suggests that feeding high risk infants is best done with a protocol. Some studies suggest that high energy enteral feeding post-cardiac surgery results to lower infection rate and shorter length of PICU stay.

Author(s): Lyvonne Tume

Lyvonne Tume

Presented at

Improving Nutrition in Critically ill Children Workshop (WFPICCS 2018)

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