Pediatric Care Resources

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These materials are intended to be used by clinicians caring for pediatric patients.

Videos

• NEW! Pediatric Nutrition-Focused Physical Exam (NFPE) Worksheets: Tools to Enhance Practice 2021  
• Pediatric Nasogastric Tube Placement and Verification: An Instructional Video for Professionals 2018
  • English Version
  • Spanish Version
  • NEW! Chinese Subtitled Version
    
• Pediatric Nasogastric Tube Placement and Verification: An Instructional Video for Caregivers 2018
  • English Version
  • Spanish Version 
• Malnutrition Matters for Pediatric Patients 2018
• Metabolism Matters (Malnutrition - Pediatric Patients) 2018
• Malnutrition in Children with Chronic Disease: Congenital Heart Disease and Liver Disease (Part 1) 2019
• Malnutrition in Children with Chronic Disease: Cystic Fibrosis and Renal Disease (Part 2) 2019

Tools

• Nutrition Care Pathways
  The Nutrition Care Pathways indicate best practices and guide clinicians—step by step—through the nutrition care process, from admission to discharge. Each step in the pathway is supplemented with resources to use in developing nutrition care plans for patients. Pediatric Nutrition Care Pathway
• Ask About Your Child's Nutrition Poster
  It is important for caregivers and families to be proactive and ask about their child's nutrition status. ASPEN has created an educational poster to help you recognize the signs of malnutrition in children, so you can talk to their healthcare provider about treatment. The poster is available in multiple languages.
  
  English
  New! French
  Spanish
  Arabic
  Traditional Chinese
  Simplified Chinese

Publications

• NEW! ASPEN Lipid Injectable Emulsion Safety Recommendations Part 2: Neonate and Pediatric Considerations. Nutr Clin Pract. 27 October 2021.
• NEW! ASPEN Definitions in Pediatric Intestinal Failure. 
  
• NEW! Transitioning From Nasogastric Feeding Tube to Gastrostomy Tube in Pediatric Patients: A Survey on Decision-Making and Practice. Included in this paper is a helpful decision tree to aid clinician and families in this important decision making process. Nutr Clin Pract. 2021;36:654-664.
  
• Pediatric Nasogastric Tube Placement and Verification: Best Practice Recommendations From the NOVEL Project. Nutr Clin Pract. 2018;33:921-927.  
• 2017 Guidelines for the Provision and Assessment of Nutrition Support Therapy in the Pediatric Critically Ill Patient. JPEN J Parenter Enteral 2017 Vol 41, Issue 5, pp. 706 – 742
  • Summary of 2017 Pediatric Guidelines
• Bouma S. Diagnosing Pediatric Malnutrition: Paradigm Shifts of Etiology‐Related Definitions and Appraisal of the Indicators. Nutr Clin Pract. 2017;32(1):52-67.
• 2014 ASPEN Clinical Guidelines: Support of Pediatric Patients with Intestinal Failure at Risk of Parenteral Nutrition - Associated Liver Disease. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2014 Vol. 38, Issue 5, pp. 538–557
• Abdelhadi RA, Bouma S, Bairdain S, et al. Characteristics of hospitalized children with a diagnosis of malnutrition: United States, 2010. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2016;40(5):623-635.