Enteral formulas are foods designed for medical uses to feed patients who are unable to eat normally. They are prepared by mixing proteins, amino acids, carbohydrates and fats and submitted to sterilization. During thermal treatment, the Maillard reaction takes place through the reaction of animo acids with reducing sugars. Thus, although glutamine and arginine are usually added to improve the ...

OBJECTIVE to evaluate the correlation between the auscultation test and X-ray when detecting the position of an enteral feeding tube. METHODS cross-sectional study in an intensive care unit in southern Brazil, in 2011. Clinical nurse and nurse researcher performed auscultation test recording the impressions regarding the placement of an enteral feeding tube in 80 patients. A doctor evaluated ...

Objective: Very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) preterm infants are at risk of growth delay if they do not receive adequate nutritional support. This study evaluated the effect of aggressive early high-dose amino acid infusion plus early enteral trophic feeding on growth in VLBW infants within the first day of life. Study Design: The effect of a high-dose 3 g amino acid (HAA)/kg/d regimen beginning on ...

UNLABELLED The efficacy of enteral nutrition as primary therapy of active Crohn's disease is controversial. The aim of the study was to compare by meta-analysis the likelihood of clinical response to liquid diet therapy vs. corticosteroids and to assess the importance of formula composition to efficacy. METHODS Randomised controlled trials comparing exclusive enteral nutrition with corticoste...

Our study showed that enteral administration of prophylactic probiotics in neonatal intensive care setup could significantly reduce morbidity due to necrotising enterocolitis in very low birth weight newborn. It also helps in establishing early full enteral feeding and reduces hospital stay.

Introduction Underfeeding is still reported as a major therapeutic failure in intensive care units (ICU), despite the increasing recognition of nutritional support as a predictor of patients’ outcome. Early optimized enteral nutrition is reported to diminish infectious events, length of stay (LoS) and, with less preponderance. Implementation of nutritional protocols is likely to improve enteral...

Introduction Interruption of enteral nutrition (EN) is common in the intensive care unit (ICU). Frequent episodes of EN interruption can lead to protein and calorie debt with a potential impact on outcomes in critically ill patients [1,2]. However, few studies have investigated the details of EN interruption practice including the reasons and duration of the interruption [3,4]. A standard proto...

Nutrition support is required to prevent or reverse malnutrition in the 15%–20% of patients that develop severe or complicated pancreatitis who are unable to resume oral intake in seven-to-ten days. The best available data supports the use of jejunal feeding over parenteral nutrition in those patients. Jejunal enteral nutrition can be successfully achieved by using nasojejunal access (in those ...