Parenteral nutrition
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Oct 30, 2026
Sundeep KeswaniGUEST
So I explored that kid, put them back together.
Sundeep KeswaniGUEST
10 days of TPN, 14 days of feed till goal feeds.
Sundeep KeswaniGUEST
22 days in the hospital is now two months old, three months old, putting on 35 grams a day.
Daphna Yasova BarbeauHOST
And let's compare these stories.
Annaliese HollandGUEST
I've got to hook up and sterilely put, you know, my needle in and put it in my veins and do that.
Annaliese HollandGUEST
And that takes a couple of hours and My nutrition was coming in that sense, but because TPN is, which is what it's called, it's called total parental nutrition, which means like all of your nutrition in a bag going through your veins and you only have a certain amount of veins you can use for it.
Annaliese HollandGUEST
So you can't actually use all your little veins.
Annaliese HollandGUEST
It's got to go through like a proper tube.
Kiran MannGUEST
So after that long, we came home.
Kiran MannGUEST
She's on 12 hours a day of TPN.
Kiran MannGUEST
She still is.
Kiran MannGUEST
She's putting on weight.
Kiran MannGUEST
We're just trying our best to see what options we have.
Kiran MannGUEST
We have a wonderful nurse that comes to us because she's on seven days.
Kiran MannGUEST
We're going through kind of the TPN stuff.
Kiran MannGUEST
We have a nurse that comes twice a week, Raluca, who's a lover again.
Lizanne KearneyGUEST
And I was like, well, the department is closed.
Lizanne KearneyGUEST
I can't get a TPN fitted only Monday to Friday anyway.
Lizanne KearneyGUEST
So I may as well be at home here where I'm not going to get sicker.
Lizanne KearneyGUEST
And I was like, I'll ring the day ward on Monday.
TrishHOST
And, you know, there was a couple of years ago that, um, there, there was a case and it made national news with a, uh, somebody who was not even medically trained at all with an IV therapy in Texas.
TrishHOST
And she had ordered TPN under her medical director.
TrishHOST
She had a medical director.
TrishHOST
Hold on.
TrishHOST
I'm going to raise my hand.
TrishHOST
Yes.
TrishHOST
No. Who's ordering TPN in a med spa, though? at an IV therapy with no medical background.
TrishHOST
So I don't believe again, because she had no medical knowledge.
Ashley DavisGUEST
He was attached to three different pumps all the time at the beginning.
Ashley DavisGUEST
And they would—I mean, we would lay Ashton on the counter to, you know, to fix his TPN in his central line, and they always wanted to watch all those things.
Ashley DavisGUEST
And my youngest—or Hunter— he would like to ask if he could give Ashton some of his medicine too through the G-tube.
Ashley DavisGUEST
And so I always let him do that.
Ashley DavisGUEST
He doesn't like to walk all of the time.
Ashley DavisGUEST
And then eating-wise, his variety of food is crazy, where he also had all the gut issues because he had a lot of his small intestine resected.
Ashley DavisGUEST
So you never know what you're going to be able to eat or if you're going to be on TPN your whole life.
Ashley DavisGUEST
Right, right.
Alex LarsonGUEST
But jokes on me, I've never actually worked as a clinical dietitian.
Alex LarsonGUEST
When I see some posts about TPN and two feedings, I'm just like, oh my god, I wouldn't even know where to start with that.
Alex LarsonGUEST
It's been so long since I...
Alex LarsonGUEST
Yes, me too.
Alfonso VargasGUEST
So this is more part of the national health service.
Alfonso VargasGUEST
Um, they were looking at babies 30 to 32 weeks and whether or not those babies really needed IV, like can we just, can we just feed these babies from the get go, not expose them to days and days of TPN of central lines of multiple sticks, you know, painful procedures with IVs.
Alfonso VargasGUEST
Can we safely feed them? And, um, again, so it's like, are, are, are we being with our interventions with putting these babies on TPN, doing these things? Are we actually potentially creating more harm? Um, Um, so it's interesting because I think this, this trial in particular showed some really, really interesting data for us and a lot of food for thought for how we approach these stable 30 to 32 week babies and whether or not we can just start full feeds from the get go.
Alfonso VargasGUEST
Because I think right now, if you, if you look across our, our units, you know, talk to your neonatologist, talk to your bedside nurses, I think especially, um, babies almost have to prove that they're, that they're, that they're, that they can feed.
Alfonso VargasGUEST
So it's like, let's start with parenteral nutrition, then the baby has to prove to us that they can eat.
Samina QureshiGUEST
And I think you also get to learn what you like to do and what you don't like to do.
Samina QureshiGUEST
And that can be really helpful, right? Do you like to calculate tube feeding and TPN formulas? Do you like to work with NICU babies who have no ability to talk, but you are measuring out their formula and breast milk and making sure that they're meeting their growth needs? There's a wide variety of things.
Samina QureshiGUEST
And I think clinical setting is a great, great place to learn.
Dan SwiftHOST
Going lighthearted again, how often do you become the person when it comes to family and friends for dietary advice?
Pradip JamnadasHOST
They said it would be inhumane to tell our patients to fast before we give them chemotherapy.
Pradip JamnadasHOST
So what we do, we feed them, then they get nauseated, then they vomit, so we give them Zofran, and then they still don't do that, so then we'll put TPN on them.
Pradip JamnadasHOST
Because we've all been indoctrinated that we have to feed, feed, feed, feed, feed.
Pradip JamnadasHOST
I'm just telling you all right now, if any of you get a myocardial infarction, you get admitted to the hospital, I'm making you NPO.
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