Routine Versus no Assessment of Gastric Residual Volumes in Preterm Infants

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Category Primary study
Registry of Trialsclinicaltrials.gov
Year 2019
The practice of checking gastric residuals is not evidence based. The amount of gastric residual volume (GRV) does not correlate with either feeding intolerance or development of NEC. We hypothesize that not monitoring GRV in infants with birth weights \< 1,250 g, and who are being fed intermittently by gastric tube, will result in earlier attainment of full feeding. This is an unblinded randomized controlled trial where GRV will not be checked routinely in the intervention group.
Epistemonikos ID: f15a3bae83beddec7ebd9e818d40ed1c36fa77e0
First added on: May 22, 2024