![]() ![]() ![]() This helps ensure the surgery can be done as safely as possible. Do an ultrasound of the heart (echocardiogram).The tube helps keep air and fluid out of the pouch so your baby is less likely to breathe spit into their lungs. ![]() Place a tube through your baby’s nose into their esophageal pouch.Give your baby fluids through an intravenous (IV) line into their vein.Premature babies may need breathing support and treatment for other health problems at birth.īefore surgery, your baby’s doctors will: This may happen because babies with EA cannot swallow normal amounts of amniotic fluid and it builds up inside the mother’s womb. This includes any breathing support they need and the timing of surgery.Ībout one-third of children born with TEF, EA or TEF/EA are born early. We carefully assess your child to decide the best treatment for them. In our Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), we will give your baby the highest level of care. Our transport team is very experienced in safely moving fragile babies to Seattle Children’s from their birth hospital. More cases mean greater skill and better outcomes. Our surgery team is very experienced in performing procedures to repair TEF/EA.We are skilled and equipped to care for the sickest newborns. Seattle Children’s has the state’s first Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), the highest level of care.Our transport team of physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists are national leaders in safely moving fragile babies.We work with your birth hospital to arrange the special care your baby will need at birth and as they travel by ambulance to Seattle Children’s soon after they are born.If doctors suspect TEF/EA during pregnancy, the team at our Fetal Care and Treatment Center team can do a detailed assessment.Doctors from several states refer babies with TEF/EA to us. At Seattle Children’s we care for 10 to 15 new patients with these rare conditions each year.Still out of curiosity, I would like to see a list of all the data sources the 7.5%, 25%, 1.5%, 16% coefficients were calculated from. While this is 31% lower then from Livesey who shows 0.8000 kJ/g = 0.1912 kcal/g, Cronometer calculates fat sourced energy at 36.822 kJ/g (not 37.4 kJ/g as Livesey), and after subtracting 1.5%, the resulting net energy is 36.270 kJ/g which is almost the same as 36.6 kJ/g NME quoted by Livesey. I also tried 99479 grams of fat (from 99999 grams a ghee custom food with the tiny bit of protein removed and adjusted the energy) and I got TEF 54945 kJ, so per gram of fat: 0.552 kJ/g = 0.132 kcal/g. More-ever it seems Cronometer calculates total energy from protein at 17.620 kJ/g, so after subtracting the 25% we get net energy 13.215 kJ/g which is almost exactly the 13.3 kJ/g quoted by Livesey. Total energy from the protein is 176195.7 kJ, so TEF is now confirmed to be calculated at exactly 25.00% of energy from protein consumed. I put in an empty diary day 10000 grams of pure protein (from 45998 grams beef tenderloin custom food item from which I removed all the fat from and adjusted calories to only account calories from protein), and I am getting TEF 44049 kJ, so per gram of protein: 4.405 kJ/g = 1.053 kcal/g. Thanks, just checked the math of updated Cronometer code and comparison to Livesey's coefficients: Where did Cronometer get the coefficients used, which seem 12.2 x lower (for fat) and 3.2 x lower (for protein) then the coefficients quoted by Livesey? If I add 1000 grams of pure protein, Cronometer adds 253.8 kcal TEF, and from Livesey's data it should be 812.6 kcal, so Cronometer seems to add 3.2 times less. With Cronometer TEF if I add a 1000 grams of pure fat to an empty diary day, it only adds 15.7 kcal TEF, while from Livesey it should be 191.2 kcal, why is the value Cronometer adds 12.2 times lower then I was using? The coefficient is the difference between NME and ME in the above table. Note the values in the above table are in kJ, so I divided them by 4.184 to obtain values in kcal (food calories). I am very much interested in the Thermic Effect of Food (TEF) feature, because up till now, I have been myself adding a custom "exercise" to add a burn of 0.1912 kcal per gram of consumed fat, and 0.8126 kcal per gram of consumed protein (none for carbohydrate), which are the values from Geoffrey Livesey, Review article: A perspective on food energy standards for nutrition labelling, British Journal of Nutrition (2001), 85, page 274, which I post the relevant screenshot from below: ![]()
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