Abstract
The investigation on the current state of nutritional care and parenteral nutrition in 1987 was performed by the questionnaire method to 170 pediatric surgical institutes in Japan. Replies submitted to the questuonnaire were obtained from 88 hospitals (52%) , though the rate of reply being 73% in 67 registered pediatric surgical institutes. The mean duration of parenteral nutrition was 50.5 days per patient, which was twice longer than 27.8 days in 1979. The frequency of the catheter-related sepsis was 4.3 of 1000 patient-days and decreased comparing to 7.9 of 1000 patient-days in 1979, while the catheter-related sepsis was occured in 16.4% of patients. Liver dysfunciton was pointed out as the most common metabolic complication for nutritional care.
