Background Nutritional support is considered essential for the outcome of paediatric critical
illness. There is a lack of methodologically sound trials to provide evidence-based …

Background Outcomes for children diagnosed with cancer have improved dramatically over
the past 20 years. However, although 40% of pediatric cancer patients require at least one …

Purpose Intravenous maintenance fluid therapy (IV-MFT) prescribing in acute and critically ill
children is very variable among pediatric health care professionals. In order to provide up to …

Background. About 10% of pediatric patients with invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) die
from the disease. Some primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) are known to confer …

Objectives: Significant muscle wasting develops in critically ill adults, with subsequent worse
outcomes. In the pediatric setting, occurrence and effects of muscle wasting are …

Ensuring optimal nutrition is vital in critically ill children and enteral feeding is the main route
of delivery in intensive care. Feeding intolerance is the most commonly cited reason …

Critically ill children frequently fail to achieve adequate energy intake, and some care
practices, such as the measurement of gastric residual volume (GRV), may contribute to this …

Objectives: To describe enteral feeding practices in pre and postoperative infants with
congenital heart disease in European PICUs. Design: Cross-sectional electronic survey …

Purpose We present guidelines for the management of infants under 12 months of age with
severe bronchiolitis with the aim of creating a series of pragmatic recommendations for a …

Objectives: Malnutrition and faltering growth at PICU admission have been related to
suboptimal outcomes. However, little is known about nutritional status deterioration during …