Enteral nutrition in the critically ill patient.

Autor: Codner PA; Division of Trauma and Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA. pcodner@mcw.edu
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Surgical clinics of North America [Surg Clin North Am] 2012 Dec; Vol. 92 (6), pp. 1485-501. Date of Electronic Publication: 2012 Sep 29.
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2012.08.005
Abstrakt: Timing and route of nutrition provided to critically ill patients can affect their outcome. Early enteral nutrition has been shown to decrease specifically infectious morbidity in the critically ill patient. There is a small group of patients who are malnourished on arrival to the intensive care unit and in these patients parenteral nutrition is beneficial.
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Databáze: MEDLINE