Currently, preemies in a neonatal intensive care unit are fed by IV, receiving a drip-drop handmade blend of nutrients that doctors call total parenteral nutrition, or TPN. This is the only way to ...

A baby underwent a horror seven-hour surgery to remove her ... Because she has not been able to eat anything, Araya is now due to have a total parenteral nutrition (TPN) line fitted. A TPN catheter ...

The risk is then increased postoperatively in infants with a staged repair because ... of sepsis include central venous access, prolonged TPN, and the immaturity or incompetence of the neonatal ...

“Right now, we come up with a TPN prescription for each baby, individually, every day,” senior researcher Nima Aghaeepour, an associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford University, said in ...