학술논문
An Ex Vivo Study Examining Migration of Microplastics from an Infused Neonatal Parenteral Nutrition Circuit.
Document Type
Article
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Subject
*PARENTERAL feeding
*NEONATAL intensive care units
*PILOT projects
*NEONATAL intensive care
*BLOOD plasma substitutes
*IN vivo studies
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*INFANT nutrition
*INTRAVENOUS therapy
*INTRAVENOUS fat emulsions
*POLLUTION
*ENVIRONMENTAL exposure
*MICROPLASTICS
*INFLAMMATION
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ISSN
0091-6765
Abstract
The article focuses on a study that estimated the risk of micro- and nanoplastic migration via an infused parenteral nutrition circuit for premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). It describes the researchers' use of an ex vivo experimental setup mimicking the clinical application as used in the NICU of the Antwerp University Hospital in Belgium. It discusses the implications of the results for the risk of exposure to microplastics leaching from intravenous lines.