Multicenter Evaluation of Pre-operative Feeding in Infants with Ductal Dependent Circulation.

Enteral feeds are often withheld from neonates with ductal dependent cardiac lesions who are receiving prostaglandins. This is despite positive benefits of enteral feeding. We describe a multicenter cohort of these neonates who were fed pre-operatively.

A preoperative standardized feeding protocol improves human milk use in infants with complex congenital heart disease.

Objective: To evaluate the hypothesis that implementation of a preoperative standardized feeding protocol increases human milk use in infants with complex congenital heart disease (CHD).

Study Design: Single-center, quasi-experimental study of infants with complex CHD. A cohort of 546 infants pre protocol was compared to 55 patients post protocol.