Nutritional therapy in paediatric intensive care units: a consensus statement of the Section of Paediatric Anaesthesia and Intensive Therapy the Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Polish Society of Neonatology and Polish Society for

Anaesthesiol Intensive Ther. 2015;47(4):267-83. doi: 10.5603/AIT.2015.0056.

Abstract

Providing nutritional therapy via the gastrointestinal tract in patients in paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) is an effective method for delivering energy and other nutrients. In the event of contraindications to using this method, it is necessary to commence parenteral nutrition. In the present study, methods for nutritional treatments in critically ill children are presented, depending on the clinical situation.

Keywords: PICU; critically ill children; enteral nutrition; parenteral nutrition.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Anesthesiology
  • Consensus
  • Critical Care / methods*
  • Humans
  • Intensive Care Units, Pediatric
  • Neonatology
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Nutritional Support / methods*
  • Pediatrics
  • Poland
  • Societies, Medical