Nutritional Prehabilitation Program and Cardiac Surgery Outcome in Pediatrics. A Randomized Controlled Trial
Nutritional Prehabilitation Program and Cardiac Surgery Outcome in Pediatrics. A Randomized Controlled Trial
Nutritional Prehabilitation Program and Cardiac Surgery Outcome in Pediatrics. A randomized controlled trial.
Nutritional Prehabilitation Program and Cardiac Surgery in Pediatrics. A randomized controlled trial to compare the outcome of malnourished congenital heart surgery patients who randomly received nutritional rehabilitation program 2 weeks and 1 week before surgical intervention.
The study included all infants with CHD, admitted to the cardiothoracic unit for either palliative or corrective surgery, and suffering from nutritional deficiencies with moderate or severe malnutrition .
Infants received long-term nutritional prehabiliatation. Those with congenital or acquired anomaly of the gastrointestinal tract; multiple congenital anomalies; chromosomal, metabolic,or endocrine diseases; any systemic illness; or fever or infection within 1 wk before the study entry were excluded