Updated and extended for this edition, this volume brings together 31 articles that offer guidance on the practical application of nutritional care of preterm infants, based on current clinical and scientific evidence. Neonatology, pediatrics, and other medical specialists from North America, New Zealand, Europe, Asia, and Argentina address the historical perspective on nutrition for infants; nutritional support for growth and development; the supply of various nutrients and non-nutrients; implementing nutritional care, including feeding, milk banks, parenteral and enteral nutrition, and care in developing countries; and nutritional care in specific diseases, namely necrotizing enterocolitis, parenteral nutrition-associated cholestasis and intestinal failure-associated liver disease in critically ill infants, pulmonary disease, and congenital heart disease. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Improved conditions of care for premature infants have led to markedly increased survival rates over the last few decades, particularly in very low and extremely low birth weight infants. Nutritional measures play a central role in the long-term outcome, health, and quality of life of these premature infants. In this updated and extended edition, leading experts from all over the world present the most recent evidence and critical analyses of nutrient requirements and the practice of nutritional care (with the focus on very low birth weight infants) to provide guidance for clinical application. The chapters of this publication show how growth and development can be nutritionally supported, which nutrients and non-nutrients can be supplied, and how nutritional care can get implemented. Approaches to nutritional care in various disease conditions are also addressed. The compilation of current information and recommendations should support the daily work of health care professionals such as neonatologists, paediatricians, other physicians involved in the care of preterm infants, nurses, nutritionists/dieticians, and others. The current book is also of interest for researchers who wish to keep up to date in this moving field.
