Nutrition of Newborns with Hypoxic-Ischaemic Encephalopathy during Therapeutic Hypothermia - A Survey of Practice in Polish Neonatal Care Units.

The majority of newborns after hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy treated with therapeutic hypothermia are fed both parenterally and enterally during the procedure, predominantly with expressed or donor breast milk. However, due to the lack of nutritional guidelines, significant variability of nutritional strategies concerning initiation time, type and volume of enteral feeds given is noted. Therefore, further studies are required to clarify feeding recommendations.