Quality Improvement Project - Evaluation of Current Standard of Care for Feeding Practices With Donor Human Milk Products in the NICU
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 150
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- To evaluate the current standard of care of nutritional management
研究概览
简要总结
Human milk is associated with substantial benefits to infants' health and development, especially in premature infants. Some mothers are unable or unwilling to provide breast milk to their infant. The use of donor human milk as an alternative to cow milk in these infants has risen dramatically in the past year. However, there have been recent reports of hyperphosphatemia and hyponatremia associated with the consumption of donor human milk products. These electrolyte imbalances can lead to concerning symptoms, including headache, nausea, vomiting, altered mental status, coma, seizures, or heart failure. It is important to recognize and appropriately treat these electrolyte disturbances associated with donor human milk to avoid potential nutritional problems.
详细描述
This is a quality improvement project to evaluate the current standard of care of nutritional management for very low birth weight infants receiving donor human milk products in the NICU at Texas Children's Hospital.
There is no randomization, there are no control subjects, and therefore there is no probability of group assignment.
Infants will be identified by the dietitian staff at TCH upon admission to the NICU (Levels 2 and 3) and communicated to the PI and PI's staff.
For each subject, data collection will begin at the point that the infant first receives any enteral feeding (including trophic feeds). All infants less than or equal to 1250 g birth weight will be followed initially. If the parent declines to allow donor human milk products for the infant, this will be noted in the data collection and no additional data will be collected for this infant. If at a later time, the parent decides to allow donor human milk products, we will begin data collection again. Our current experience is that >95% of mothers agree to donor human milk products.
Data collection will continue throughout the hospitalization until one week after all donor human milk products have been discontinued or discharge.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 1 Day 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Premature infants (<37 weeks gestation) with a birth weight less than or equal to 1250 grams.
排除标准
- •Infants with a birth weight greater than 1250 grams
- •Infants transferred from an outside hospital to TCH at greater than 21 days of age
- •Infants who do not achieve any enteral feeds by 4 weeks of age
- •Infants with major congenital anomalies
研究组 & 干预措施
Observational
This is a quality improvement project to evaluate the current standard of care of nutritional management for very low birth weight infants receiving donor human milk products in the NICU at Texas Children's Hospital.
There is no randomization, there are no control subjects, and therefore there is no probability of group assignment.
结局指标
主要结局
To evaluate the current standard of care of nutritional management
时间窗: August 2010 - December 2011
To evaluate the current standard of care of nutritional management for very low birth weight infants receiving donor human milk products in the NICU at Texas Children's Hospital.
次要结局
- To ensure that guidelines for VLBW infants are followed(August 2010 - December 2011)
研究者
Amy Hair
Assistant Professor
Baylor College of Medicine