Society guideline links: Nutrition support (parenteral and enteral nutrition) for neonates including preterm infants

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately:

●(See "Society guideline links: Nutrition support (parenteral and enteral nutrition) in infants and children".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Breastfeeding and infant nutrition".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Short bowel syndrome".)

International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Recommendations for care of the preterm or low-birth-weight infant (2022)

United States

●American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN): Guidelines for parenteral nutrition in preterm infants (2023)

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Clinical report on promoting human milk and breastfeeding for the very low birth weight infant (2021)

●ASPEN: Consensus recommendation on lipid injectable emulsion safety recommendations – Part 2: Neonate and pediatric considerations (2021)

●Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Evidence-based nutrition practice guideline on very low birthweight preterm infants, 2020 (published 2021)

●Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Preterm infant (VLBW) enteral nutrition guideline (2020)  

●AAP: Clinical report on calcium and vitamin D requirements of enterally fed preterm infants (2013)

●ASPEN: Clinical guidelines – Nutrition support of neonatal patients at risk for metabolic bone disease (2013)

●ASPEN: Clinical guidelines – Hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia in the neonate receiving parenteral nutrition (2012)

●ASPEN: Clinical guidelines – Nutrition support of neonatal patients at risk for necrotizing enterocolitis (2012)

●ASPEN: Clinical guidelines – Nutrition support of neonates supported with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (2010)

Europe

●European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (ESPGHAN): Position paper on enteral nutrition in preterm infants (2022)

●ESPGHAN: Position paper on nutritional management of the critically ill neonate (2021)

●European Milk Bank Association (EMBA): Recommendations on fortification of human milk for preterm infants, update (2020)

●ESPGHAN/European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN)/European Society of Paediatric Research (ESPR): Guidelines on pediatric parenteral nutrition (2018)

•Amino acids

•Calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium

•Carbohydrates

•Complications

•Energy

•Fluid and electrolytes

•Home parenteral nutrition

•Iron and trace minerals

•Lipids

•Organisational aspects

•Standard versus individualized parenteral nutrition

•Venous access

•Vitamins

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Quality standard in neonatal parenteral nutrition (2022)

●NICE: Guideline for neonatal parenteral nutrition (2020)

India

●Indian National Neonatology Forum (NNF): Clinical practice guidelines on feeding of low birth weight neonates (2020)

Australia–New Zealand

●Australasian Neonatal Parenteral Nutrition Consensus Group: Standardised neonatal parenteral nutrition formulations – Australasian neonatal parenteral nutrition consensus update 2017 (published 2020)