Nutrition management of extremely low birth weight infants / 中国小儿急救医学

ABSTRACT

Extremely low birth weight infants(ELBWI)are the greatest risk infants in NICU.Nutrition management influence directly surviving and prognosis of these infants in addition to the essential life support technology.Nutrition requirement,enteral and parenteral nutrition,feeding after discharge for ELBWI is introduced in this article.The ideal goals of nutrition support for ELBWI is to achieve growth similar to foetal growth coupled with satisfactory functional development and composition of weight gain for a normal fetus.