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Total Parenteral Nutrition of Premature Infants 1. Requirement for Macronutrient Elements
Author(s) -
JAMES B. E.,
HENDRY P. G.,
MacMAHON R. A.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1979.tb01191.x
Subject(s) - medicine , parenteral nutrition , premature newborn , pediatrics
James, B. E., Hendry, P. G., and MacMahon, R. A. (1979). Aust. Paediatr. J., 15, 62–66. Total parenteral nutrition of premature infants. 1. Requirement for macronutrient elements. Balance studies were performed for 6 essential elements (Na. K, Cl, Ca, Mg, P) on 5 premature infants, with birthweights less than 1200 g, who were fed entirely by vein with a formula based on L amino‐acid isomers. These studies determined the amounts retained when these elements were given intravenously. There was a significant correlation between the input and retention of each of these elements, and the data obtained have been used, by analogy with fetal growth, to derive tentative recommendations for the rate of infusion of these elements into the small premature infant.