We assessed the compliance and volume of feeds taken from dietetic, nursing and medical notes.
The latest international sepsis guidelines recommend the prescription of a low volume of feeds through gastric or intestinal enteral nutrition (EN) for 7 days after admission to the ICU.
Nevertheless, on the basis of these works, the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Committee has released updated guidelines recommending that the prescription of EN be limited to a low volume of feeds, practically corresponding to an intentional underfeeding of sepsis patients for the 7 days after the ICU admission [ 3].
Their study focused on paediatric patients and the volumes of feeds to be taken were large at 1000 ml.
These records included the number of stools per day, and characteristics (consistency and frequency) of the stools, volume of study feeding consumed at each feeding, consumption of foods other than the study feeding, and incidences of regurgitation (CD-C), spit-up (CD-I), and vomiting.
From baseline to SD84 there were no significant changes in the daily volume of study feeding consumed, energy intake from the study feeding, or total energy intake (Table 3).
Membrane compaction reduces the mass transfer resistance and enhances the velocity on membrane surface, and thus, leads to an increasing permeate volume of feed solution in regular intervals.
As poor feeding in an extremely hyperbilirubinemic newborn may be an early sign of bilirubin encephalopathy, we hypothesized that neonatal hyperbilirubinemia would suppress the volume of feed ingested and diminish sucking parameters in comparison with minimally jaundiced neonates.
Based on the design, the optimal conditions for obtaining higher pertraction were stripping phase (Na2CO3) concentration ranging from 1.58% to 3.46% w/v, ratio of strip to membrane phase and the ratio of volume of feed to emulsion 2.0, contact time ranging from 12.11 to 14.71 min.
