2019•Zhonghua shiyong erke linchuang zazhiRequires access
Nutritional management of acute pancreatitis in children
Lingfen Xu, Mei Sun
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Abstract
Acute pancreatitis in children is a common acute and critical disease in clinical practice, and its incidence is increasing.The motality of moderate severe acute pancreatitis or severe acute pancreatitis is up to 10%-15%.Proper nutrition support can reduce the infection rate and mortality and improve the disease outcome under the condition of high metabolism and negative nitrogen balance, especially early enteral nutrition can benefit the patients significantly.Proper nutrition support methods and approaches, proper enteral nutrition initiation timing, optimized enteral nutrition formulations and quantity are all the hot spots at present.
Key words:
Acute pancreatitis; Enteral nutrition; Child