Evaluation of improvement measures for premature infants with tube feeding

Abstract

Objective To explore the effects of individualized feeding, intervention training, breast feeding education and kangaroo nursing on the improvement of feeding time, transition time and average hospital stay of premature infants. Methods A total of 586 hospitalized premature infants were selected as the control group who were admitted to the department before the adoption of tube feeding and feeding improvement measures for premature infants from July 2016 to December 2016.A total of 632 hospitalized premature infants admitted to this department after the implementation of improvement measures were selected as the observation group from January 2017 to July 2017.The control group was fed with traditional tube feeding method, namely gastric tube injector injection method.However, the observation group adopted the recommendations of extremely low birth-weight infant feeding proposed by McMaster university of Canada and formulated the improved measures of tube feeding and feeding of premature infants based on the long-term clinical experience of the department.The duration of tube feeding, transition time, average length of stay and nursing satisfaction of family members were compared between the two groups. Results Tube feeding time, transition time and average length of stay in the control group were compared with the observation group, and the differences were statistically significant (P<0.05). The nursing satisfaction of the observation group was compared with that of the control group, and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). Conclusions The improvement measures of tube feeding and feeding of premature infants have a significant effect on improving tube feeding and feeding of premature infants, which can not only shorten the transition time and average length of hospitalization of tube feeding and feeding of premature infants, but also improve the quality of nursing and nursing satisfaction. It is worth further popularizing and applying in clinic to improve nursing satisfaction. Key words: Premature infants; Tube feeding; Improvement measures