Nutritional Care for High Risk Newborns

Abstract: An authoritative manual for dietitians provides detailed resource information for neonatal nutrition. The disease states discussed are those common to sick newborns in secondary and tertiary level neonatal intensive care units. ancillary supportive information concerning nutritional assessment, feeding methods, the composition of nutritional support products, and nutritional requirements, also is included. The 34 subject areas of the text are grouped among 6 specific sections: general considerations concerning fluid requirements, renal solute load, and osmolality; enternal feeding: parenteral feeding; nutritional assessments (including birth weight status and dietary, clinical, anthropometric, and laboratory assessments); specific medical-surgical problems; and follow-up. reference data and standards are summarized in 8 appendices. Detailed literature references are appended to each of the individual subject areas, and tabular data and graphs are given throughout the text.