The Incubator
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Ben Courchia & Daphna Yasova Barbeau
#386 - 🟢 HOT TOPICS 2025 COVERAGE - Can We Safely Give Full Feeds from Day One to Moderate Preterm Infants?
16 minutes Posted Dec 9, 2025 at 3:00 pm.
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Send us a text Dr. Shalini Ojha, Professor of Neonatal Medicine at University of Nottingham, presents the Feed One trial examining full enteral feeding (60 mL/kg/day) from day one versus gradual advancement in 30-32 week infants. While the primary outcome of hospital length of stay showed no difference (median 32 days), full feeding significantly reduced parenteral nutrition use, IV cannulations, and associated interventions without increasing necrotizing enterocolitis risk (4 versus 6 cases)...