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#462 - [Journal Club] - πŸ“Œ Continuous vs Bolus Feeding, Which One Grows Babies Better?

#462 - [Journal Club] - πŸ“Œ Continuous vs Bolus Feeding, Which One Grows Babies Better?2 Sept18 min

Send us Fan Mail Every unit has a bolus camp and a continuous camp, and both are usually dug in. Ben brings a single center non-inferiority trial from India, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, randomizing 132 infants born before 29 weeks and under a thousand grams to extended infusion feeding or two hourly bolus feeds. Weight gain at discharge was essentially identical at 15.3 versus 15.7 grams per kilo per day, but the infusion group lost two fewer days to interrupted feeds. Ben and Dap...