Nutrition
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Review Meta Analysis
Impact of lipid emulsion containing fish oil on outcomes of surgical patients: systematic review of randomized controlled trials from Europe and Asia.
This study aimed to systematically review the clinical efficacy of lipid emulsion containing fish oil in surgical patients. ⋯ The administration of lipid emulsion containing fish oil to patients undergoing elective major operations improves outcomes. The infectious complications are significantly fewer and length of hospitalization significantly shortened for patients treated with lipid emulsion containing fish oil. Further well-designed randomized controlled trials are needed to demonstrate the cost effectiveness of lipid emulsion containing fish oil to postoperative patients.
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The proper management of nutritional support remains a challenging task in many Western hospitals. This study aimed at reporting a 4-y survey on the centralized management of nutritional support by a malnutrition task force in an Italian research hospital. ⋯ The centralized management of nutritional support is a successful strategy, which provides the appropriate prescription of artificial nutrition during hospitalization and at discharge. Multidisciplinary nutrition support teams or task forces should be created in every hospital.
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Because consumption of teas may be associated with potential health benefits due to its content in polyphenols and in Western countries the consumption of tea is equally divided between the hot and the ready-to-drink (RTD) cold versions of this typical beverage, the aim of this work was to study the absorption and metabolism of flavan-3-ols in human volunteers after the ingestion of a commercial RTD tea. ⋯ The bioavailability values observed are in agreement with previous reports, although the dosage of polyphenols ingested in this study is remarkably lower. Moreover, the use of a group of 20 volunteers, more than the average number of subjects used for usual human acute-feeding studies involving polyphenols, provides additional credibility to the results. After drinking the RTD ice tea used in this study, the internal compartments are exposed to non-marginal doses of flavanols and flavanol metabolites up to 24h.