Nutritional assessment of the very low birth weight infant [Avaliação nutricional do recém-nascido de muito baixo peso]

• Type: Another Publication in an International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2004

Authors

Rocha, G (Author) Other; Guerra, P (Author) Other; Antonio Guerra (Author) FMUP; Guimarães H (Author) FMUP

Journal

Title: Arquivos de Medicina

Vol. 18

Pages: 108-114

ISSN: 0871-3413

Publisher: A E F M U P, Alameda prof. H. Montiero

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Authenticus ID: P-007-E75

Abstract (EN): In recent years, improvements in care have significantly improved survival in preterm and, particularly, the very low birth weight infant. While immediate survival can be directly related to pulmonary maturity, several studies stress the importance of timely and adequate nutrition in these high-risk infants on a short- and long-term. Nutritional assessment is an important facet of medical care of the very low birth weight infant. The authors review some of the methods most frequently used in the nutritional assessment of the very low birth weight infant, including the nutritional assessment at birth, the comparison of the different available growth charts and the nutritional assessment during the first weeks of life. They outline the importance of the daily record of energy and protein intake, serial anthropometric measurements and the laboratory indices as markers of the extent of underfeeding and early deficits. Newer noninvasive techniques used in the assessment of body composition of the newborn are presented, with particular focus on the dual energy X ray absormetry (DEXA). ©ArquiMed, 2004.

Language: Portuguese

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific