Nutrition Support for critically ill children
Abstract
The patient was a time when the weakness, various organs want relax, at the same time, the body needs nutrients to restore the body surface as well. So food for critical illness children not a burden to the stomach 0r the body must work harder should be easy but still good food to help repair physical degradation. Because while ill in the body tissue degradation or destruction.
Nutritional support in the critically ill child has not been well investigated and is a controversial topic within paediatric intensive care during the first week of their critical illness.
The aim of this study was to assess the impact of enteral and parenteral nutrition give in the
first week of illness on clinically important outcome in critically ill children. There was to primary hypotheses:
• The mortality rate of critically fed enterally and parenterally is different to that of children who are given no nutrition.
• The mortality rate of critically ill children fed enterally is different to that of children fed parenterally.
In this review only one small ramdomized controlled trial the compared early feeding ( within 24
hours) with conventional feeding ( after at least 48 hours ). Criteria for this study include randomized controlled trial aged one day to 18 years, cared in a paediatric intensive care and received nutrition within the first seven days of admission.
Measures from 30-day mortality. If this was not available, then paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) mortality, Length of stay in the PICU, Length of stay in hospital, Number of days on the ventilator, Morbid complications including nosocomial infection.
Summary of the study, found only one small enteral within 24 hours compared with enteral nutrition after at least 48 hours, infection, length of stay and mortality no difference and quality criteria is very low.