Dear friend and colleagues,
I am looking for the prevalence of feeding tube use in countries all over the world. While we know, that there is a dramatic increase from a french study (Daveluy et al. 20005/2006); I have a feeling there are no confirmed data our nationwide records in most of the countries. If you would have any data; I would be more than delighted to read and cite your papers.
Sincerely
Markus Wilken
Markus,
In a cohort historical sudy (2005) we reported a progressive increase in enteral tube feeding use in a pediatric ICU. This increase was due to a continuous education program in nutrition support that lead to implementation of a nutrition support team (NST).
The current prevalence of EN use in our PICU is around 80%. Please refer to the attached files. I have marked the key information in yellow.
Heitor
Thank you for your answer and the papers, very interesting material.
sincerely
Markus
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