A Simplified Intravenous Fat Emulsion Tolerance Test

Fat emulsion for complete intravenous nutrition.

AN ADEQUATE amount of food is important in order to maintain a patient in the best possible condition to stand such strains as disease or trauma of different kinds (infections, burn, surgery, etc.). If oral feeding is impossible the nutrients have to be given in some other way. The two possibilities available are tube feeding and intravenous nutrition. The intravenous route is employed when tub...

The intravenous intralipid tolerance test.

The half-life of an intravenously injected bolus of intralipid 20% was measured in normal rats in order to asess its relationship to reticuloendothelial system (RES) activity. Groups of animals were studied following various treatments, and the results compared to measurement of carbon clearance in similar groups. The RES effects of silica and C parvum were confirmed by the carbon clearance tes...

A standard intravenous glucose tolerance test.

Effects of intravenous fat emulsion on respiratory failure.

The effects of intravenous fat emulsion on ventilated normal, diseased or distressed lungs were studied. Forty-eight patients with different types of respiratory failure were divided into four groups. Group A was composed of the patients with a normal lung condition; group B, patients with infectious pulmonary condition and respiratory failure; group C, patients with COPD and respiratory failur...

Intravenous fat emulsion in clinical practice: nutrient and antidote.

For more than 50 years intravenous fat emulsions (IVFEs), or intravenous lipid emulsions, have been used for nutritive support for patients who are unable to attain adequate nourishment via the gastrointestinal tract 1, . This made IVFEs an important part of total parenteral nutrition regimens 3, . Although used to meet the caloric requirements, their role is not only to provide fat as physiolo...