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Practice Guideline
. 2024 May;44(5):694-701.
doi: 10.1038/s41372-024-01965-9. Epub 2024 Apr 16.

A clinical consensus guideline for nutrition in infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia from birth through discharge

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A clinical consensus guideline for nutrition in infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia from birth through discharge

Patrick Sloan et al. J Perinatol. 2024 May.

Abstract

Objective: To develop a consensus guideline to meet nutritional challenges faced by infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH).

Study design: The CDH Focus Group utilized a modified Delphi method to develop these clinical consensus guidelines (CCG). Topic leaders drafted recommendations after literature review and group discussion. Each recommendation was sent to focus group members via a REDCap survey tool, and members scored on a Likert scale of 0-100. A score of > 85 with no more than 25% outliers was designated a priori as demonstrating consensus among the group.

Results: In the first survey 24/25 recommendations received a median score > 90 and after discussion and second round of surveys all 25 recommendations received a median score of 100.

Conclusions: We present a consensus evidence-based framework for managing parenteral and enteral nutrition, somatic growth, gastroesophageal reflux disease, chylothorax, and long-term follow-up of infants with CDH.

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