The TPN is recommended for initiation of nutrition for the patients who are unable to tolerate any external feeds.
Nutrition plays an important and crucial role in the management of Neonatal patients.
TPN calculation depends on the requirement of the patients' calories, volume of fluid, electrolytes etc. The knowledge based approach will assist the physicians in their determination of the required parameters. This study explains various rules that need to be programmed into the knowledge base. The lipids, protein and carbohydrate intake is calculated based on the desired energy. The oral intake is taken into consideration for the calculation.