Table 3

Comparison of the characteristics of nutrition between the children with shock and the other critically ill patients who received postpyloric nutrition


SHOCK
Other patients
p

Number of patients
65
461

Parenteral nutrition



Patients (number, %)
(median, range)
14 (21.5%)
4 (1–30)
80 (17.4%)
6 (0–99)
.391
.956
Days before TEN (median, range)
2 (0.1–28)
2 (0.4–90)
.431
Initiation of the TEN within the first 48 h after admission
44 (67.6%)
284 (61.6%)
.275
Calorie intake in the first 24 h of TEN (kcal/100 kcal metabolised/day) (median, range)
44.6 (20–79)
48.5 (27.5–107)
.373
Maximum calorie intake (kcal/100 kcal metabolised/day) (median, range)
83 (15–121)
84 (15–162)
.106
TEN duration (days) (median, range)
13 (0.4–240)
7 (0.5–140)
.020
Gastrointestinal complications
20 (30.7%)
42 (9.1%)
.0001
Abdominal distension/excessive gastric residue
10 (15.4%)
23 (5%)
.004
Diarrhoea
13 (20%)
21 (4.6%)
.0001
Necrotising enterocolitis
1 (1.5%)
2 (0.4%)
.432
Duodenal perforation
1 (1.5%)
0
-
Definitive suspension of TEN
6 (9.2%)
5 (1%)
.0001

López-Herce et al. Nutrition Journal 2008 7:6   doi:10.1186/1475-2891-7-6