Mucous Fistula Refeeding
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- Mucous fistula refeeding in premature neonates with ostomies reduces time on parenteral nutrition compared to standard management.
- Refeeding through the mucous fistula may allow earlier surgical reconstruction in post-surgical premature infants.
- This technique is underutilized but shows promise for improving nutritional outcomes in neonates with diverting ostomies.
- The retrospective study compared outcomes between neonates with mucous fistula refeeding versus those without refeeding.
- Experts suggest considering mucous fistula refeeding even in preterm patients based on emerging evidence of benefit.
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This is Todd Ponsky from the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, and today we are in Chihuahua, Mexico at the forty-ninth annual Mexican Congress of Pediatric Surgeons. The academic coordinator is Doctor Jorge Cantu, who invited us here. Jorge, thank you for having us. It's a pleasure for us, and, uh, today we're gonna have a special guest doing the journal review, Doctor Miguel Gilfon from Santiago, Chile. Happy to be here, Todd, and thank you for the invitation. Today we're going to review the paper called Mucous fistula Refitting Decreases Parental Nutrition exposure in Post-surgical Premature neonates done by Colin Goss and senior author Howard Pryor. This a retrospective study with two arms. One arm, the neonates have the stoma and amigus fistula, and the other arm has. Stomach, no mucous fistula or wasn't refitting in the arm. So basically it's a paper saying that if you start refeeding patients through the mucous fistula they get sooner off TPN and can have a reconstruction surgery sooner as well. Miguel, I thought that was a really cool paper. I don't do mucous fistula refeeding, but now I may. Do you do mucous fistul refeeding in Monterey? Usually not, no. Would you do it now? Uh, maybe in my next case, maybe yes. It's a, it's a good paper. Uh, we have done it in, in bigger patients in neonet but not pre-terms and uh, if, if the data is OK, I think it's a great thing for the neonates to get off the TPN sooner and get a reconstruction, uh, sooner than the others, so it's good. I agree. I thought it was a great paper. Well, thank you very much. We hope you enjoyed this review. We'll see you next time.