The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 156, Issue 1 , Pages 26-28 , January 2010

Refrigerator Storage of Expressed Human Milk in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

  • Meredith Slutzah, DO

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Schneider Children's Hospital, New Hyde Park, NY
    • Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Schneider Children's Hospital at North Shore, Manhasset, NY
    • ,
  • Champa N. Codipilly, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Schneider Children's Hospital at North Shore, Manhasset, NY
    • Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health Systems, Manhasset, NY
    • ,
  • Debra Potak, RN

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Schneider Children's Hospital at North Shore, Manhasset, NY
    • ,
  • Richard M. Clark, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
    • ,
  • Richard J. Schanler, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Schneider Children's Hospital, New Hyde Park, NY
    • Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Schneider Children's Hospital at North Shore, Manhasset, NY
    • Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health Systems, Manhasset, NY
    • Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Dr Richard J. Schanler, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, North Shore University Hospital, 300 Community Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030.

Received 26 March 2009 ,Revised 11 June 2009 ,Accepted 9 July 2009.

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 The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

PII: S0022-3476(09)00656-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2009.07.023

The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 156, Issue 1 , Pages 26-28 , January 2010

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