Promoting Full Oral Feeding in Preterm Infants Less Than 30 Weeks Gestational Age

Preterm Infants Clinical Trial

Official title: Study on the New Feeding Protocol of Promoting Very Preterm Infants to Attain Full Oral Feeding Earlier

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The investigators plan to use a new process to shorten the time of attaining full oral feeding in preterm infants less than 30 weeks gestational age.

Clinical Trial Description

In the neonatal intensive care unit, the attention of oral feeding of premature infants is far less than that of mechanical ventilation, antibiotics and other medical treatment, the use of parenteral nutrition, etc., and it is often not until the premature infants are enough mature and stable, or even before discharge that the caregivers pay attention to the problem of oral feeding. At this time, the corrected gestational age of premature infants is almost 36 weeks, but in fact the study shows that preterm infants have the ability of self feeding when they are about 32 weeks old. And oral feeding is very helpful to improve their nutritional status, reduce the use of parenteral nutrition and other forms of enteral nutrition, prevent complications and shorten the length of stay. Therefore, this study plans to use a new process to promote oral feeding and to verify whether it is feasible to earlier attainment of full oral feeding in premature infants. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Premature Birth
• Preterm Infants

• NCT number: NCT04277806
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Children's Hospital of Fudan University
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 15, 2020
• Completion date: September 30, 2020