Research Communications of the 27(th) ECVIM-CA Congress: Intercontinental, Saint Julian's, Malta, 14th to 16th September 2017

A prospective study was conducted on ill cats hospitalized in an internal medicine service who had inadequate food intake for more than three days and were refed with enteral feeding. The objective was to follow clinical and biological parameters known to be modified in refeeding syndrome during the first five days of enteral refeeding. An initial nutritional assessment was done for each cat. Sodium, phosphorus, potassium, ionized calcium, magnesium, glucose, insulin, albumin, hematocrit, creatine kinase, cardiac troponin I and serum amyloid A were evaluated at the time of feeding tube placement, and then after three and five days of refeeding. Physiological parameters were recorded twice a day. A daily weight was done. A nutritional plan based on the nutritional assessment was implemented for each cat.