Continuous Versus Bolus Gastric Feeding in Children Receiving Mechanical Ventilation: A Systematic Review.

Background: Nutrition guidelines recommend enteral nutrition in the form of gastric feedings for critically ill children and acknowledge a lack of evidence describing an optimal method for providing these feedings.

Objective: To determine the state of the science regarding the efficacy of bolus (intermittent) or continuous gastric feedings to improve nutrition delivery in critically ill children receiving mechanical ventilation.

Methods: Five hundred seventy-nine abstracts met the inclusion criteria and were screened by 2 reviewers according to prespecified criteria.

Co-ingestion of methanol and nitromethane: using falsely elevated creatinine as indicator for methanol antidote use.

Objective: To report a case of co-ingestion of methanol and nitromethane in a child in order to heighten the awareness of false elevation of serum creatinine from nitromethane ingestion.

Design: Case report.

Setting: Pediatric intensive care unit.