A safe and efficacious preventive strategy in the high-risk surgical neonate: cycled total parenteral nutrition

ConclusionProphylactic TPN cycling is a safe and efficacious nutritional management strategy in surgical neonates less than 1  week of age with low rates of hypoglycemia and a shorter total course of TPN; however, hepatic dysfunction did not appear to be improved compared to therapeutic cycling.
Source: Pediatric Surgery International - Category: Surgery Source Type: research