When to start and how much parenteral (intravenous nutrition) is best for the health, growth and development of very preterm, late preterm and sick term infants is being determined. These infants are unable to feed orally due to severe illness or congenital malformations requiring surgery. A clinical trial on early versus late PN in critically unwell late preterm infants and term surgical patients is due to commence in 2020 in NICU at PCH.
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