Abstract
The Committee on Nutrition, American Academy of Pediatrics has recently reported on the "Use of Intravenous Fat Emulsions in Pediatric Patients" (Pediatrics 68:738, 1981). The committee recommends restriction of the amount of fat emulsion given infants because of a lack of accurate and appropriate means of monitoring serum fatty acid and triglyceride concentrations. Such is not the case for triglycerides. The pediatric clinical chemistry laboratory has the ability to measure serum triglyceride concentrations to support hyperalimentation therapeutic monitoring.
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