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34(3) Update: Nutrition for Congenital Heart Disease
Nearly 1% or 40,000 births (or nearly 1 in 100 babies) each year in the United States are affected by congenital heart disease (CHD), with approximately 25% of those infants having critical cardiac defects that require surgery or catheter-based intervention … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, calories, congenital heart disease, CSHCN, energy, enteral nutrition, GI, growth, infants, intervention, medication interactions, nutrition management, oral-motor, parenteral nutrition, protein, team members, tube feeding
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32(1) Nutrition Assessment and Management of the Child with Cancer
Despite recent advances in research and treatment, cancer is still the leading cause of death by disease for all children past infancy in the United States. As recent as 2014, researchers estimated 10,450 new cancer cases and 1,350 cancer deaths … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, cancer, chemotherapy, development, education, enteral nutrition, feeding, GI, growth, intervention, medication interactions, medications, nutrition management, oncology, radiation, tube feeding
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