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Best Pract Res Clin Gastroenterol · Jan 2006
ReviewRole of enteral and parenteral nutrition in the patient with gastrointestinal and liver disease.
- Rebecca J Stratton and Trevor R Smith.
- Institute of Human Nutrition, School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK. rjs@soton.ac.uk
- Best Pract Res Clin Gastroenterol. 2006 Jan 1; 20 (3): 441-66.
AbstractThis chapter discusses a number of key issues: the importance of nutritional support, both enteral (oral nutritional supplements, enteral tube feeding) and parenteral nutrition in the treatment of the nutritionally compromised patient with gastrointestinal and liver disease; prescribing and monitoring nutritional support; refeeding syndrome; practicalities, indications and contraindications and complications of using enteral and parenteral nutrition; choosing feeds with an optimal nutrient composition for nutritional support, including specific feeds for disease states; the evidence base for using nutritional support in the patient with gastrointestinal and liver disease.
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