nutrients Article International Latin American Survey on Pediatric Intestinal Failure Team José Vicente N. Spolidoro 1,2, * , Mirella C. Souza 3 , Helena A. S. Goldani 4 , María N. Tanzi 5 , Veronica B. Busoni 6 , Maria del Carmen Padilla 7 , Nelson E. Ramirez 8 , Colomba Cofre 9 , Lidia P. Valdivieso 10 , Carola Saure 11 , Gabriela Jimenez-Arguedas 12 , Mikaelle S. M. Mateus 13 , Roberta Serra 14 , Carlos Cuadros-Mendonza 15 , Juan Rivera-Medina 16 , Daniela Gattini 9,17 , Beatriz J. dos Santos 18 , Clara Plata 19 , and Natascha Silva Sandy 17 on behalf of the LASPGHAN Intestinal Failure Working Group †   Citation: Spolidoro, J.V.N.; Souza, M.C.; Goldani, H.A.S.; Tanzi, M.N.; Busoni, V.B.; Padilla, M.d.C.; Ramirez, N.E.; Cofre, C.; Valdivieso, L.P.; Saure, C.; et al. International Latin American Survey on Pediatric Intestinal Failure Team. Nutrients 2021, 13, 2754. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13082754 Academic Editors: Luis A. Moreno, Mauro Fisberg and Irina Kovalskys Received: 17 June 2021 Accepted: 12 July 2021 Published: 11 August 2021 Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affil- iations. Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). 1 School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre 90619-900, Brazil 2 Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre 90035-902, Brazil 3 Unidade de Suporte de Home Care, Unimed Blumenau, Ponta Aguda 89051-900, Brazil; mirella.gastroped@gmail.com 4 Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre 90035-903, Brazil; hegoldani@gmail.com 5 Unidad de Nutrición Enteral y Parenteral, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell, 11600 Montevideo, Uruguay; mntanzi@montevideo.com.uy 6 Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C1199 CABA, Argentina; veronica.busoni@gmail.com 7 Hospital Materno Infantil Caja Nacional, Santa Cruz, Bolivia; mari-al@hotmail.es 8 Hospital del Seguro Universitário, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, 3161 La Paz, Bolivia; nelramrod@gmail.com 9 Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago 8330024, Chile; colombac@gmail.com (C.C.); dani.gattini@gmail.com (D.G.) 10 Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Nacional Docente Madre Niño San Bartolome, Lima 15001, Peru; patrilid23@yahoo.com 11 División de Nutrición y Diabetes, Hospital de Pediatría Juan Pedro Garrahan, Buenos Aires C1245 CABA, Argentina; gocarola@icloud.com 12 Servicio de Gastroenterología, Departamento de Pediatría, Hospital Nacional de Niños, “Dr. Carlos Sáenz Herrera” Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social, San José 10103, Costa Rica; gabyjimeneza@gmail.com 13 Hospital Infantil Albert Sabin- Ambulatorio de Reabilitação Intestinal, Fortaleza 60410-994, Brazil; marquesmikaelle@gmail.com 14 Instituto de Puericultura Martagã Gesteira—Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-912, Brazil; robertarcserra@gmail.com 15 Hospital Internacional de Colombia—Fundacion Cardiovascular de Colombia, Santander 681004, Colombia; carloscuadros17@gmail.com 16 Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Unit of Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima 15081, Peru; juan.riveramedina@gmail.com 17 Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1X8, Canada; natascha.sandy@hotmail.com 18 Hospital da Criança Conceição, Porto Alegre 91350-250, Brazil; beajohn@terra.com.br 19 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Bogota 111321, Colombia; plata_clara@javeriana.edu.co * Correspondence: jvspolidoro@gmail.com or jose.spolidoro@pucrs.br † Membership of the Latin American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (LASPGHAN) Working Group (Grupo de Trabajo en Investigación-Insuficiencia Intestinal). Abstract: There is little data on the experience of managing pediatric Intestinal Failure (IF) in Latin America. This study aimed to identify and describe the current organization and practices of the IF teams in Latin America and the Caribbean. An online survey was sent to inquire about the existence of IF teams that managed children on home parenteral nutrition (HPN). Our questionnaire was based on a previously published European study with a similar goal. Twenty-four centers with pediatric IF teams in eight countries completed the survey, representing a total number of 316 children on HPN. The median number of children on parenteral nutrition (PN) at home per team was 5.5 (range 1–50). Teams consisted of the following members: pediatric gastroenterologist and a pediatric surgeon in all teams, dietician (95.8%), nurse (91.7%), social worker (79.2%), pharmacist (70.8%), oral therapist Nutrients 2021, 13, 2754. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13082754 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nutrients