OtherDevelopmental medicine and child neurology2020
Optimal clinical management of children receiving ketogenic parenteral nutrition: a clinical practice guide.
Elles van der Louw, Vanessa Aldaz, Jessica Harvey, Marian Roan, Dorine van den Hurk, J Helen Cross, Stéphane Auvin
PMID 31313290WHAT IT FOUND
No new patient outcomes were tested.
A panel of experts surveyed 24 centers to agree on 23 safety recommendations for giving ketogenic nutrition intravenously when a child cannot eat.
What this paper is
This is a clinical practice guide that uses expert consensus and a survey of current practice to establish 23 recommendations for administering ketogenic parenteral nutrition. It does not report original clinical trial data or outcomes from a new patient cohort, so there is no finding to act on.