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Nursing management of patients who are nil by mouth.
This article examines how to manage patients who are nil by mouth (NBM) and maintain optimal nutritional status. Pre-operative fasting and other reasons why patients might be NBM, methods of administering nutritional support and nursing considerations, such as mouth care, urine output, intravenous therapy and skin assessment are also discussed. The article provides an insight into the psycholog...
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OBJECTIVE To determine whether a period of starvation (nil by mouth) after gastrointestinal surgery is beneficial in terms of specific outcomes. DESIGN Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials comparing any type of enteral feeding started within 24 hours after surgery with nil by mouth management in elective gastrointestinal surgery. Three electronic databases (PubM...
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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES There is substantial evidence of superiority of enteral nutrition (EN) to parenteral nutrition in acute pancreatitis (AP) treatment, but few studies evaluated its effectiveness compared to no intervention. The objective of our trial was to compare the effects of EN to a nil-by-mouth (NBM) regimen in patients with AP. METHODS Patients with AP were randomized to receive ei...
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متن کاملNormal food at will and nil-by-mouth enteral feeding after major upper GI surgery did not differ for mortality or morbidity.
ED FROM Lassen K, Kjaeve J, Fetveit T, et al. Allowing normal food at will after major upper gastrointestinal surgery does not increase morbidity: a randomized multicenter trial. Ann Surg 2008;247:721–9. Correspondence to: Dr K Lassen, University Hospital Northern Norway, Tromso, Norway; [email protected] Sources of funding: Norwegian Research Council and Fresenius Kabi. c Clinical impact ratings: ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Anaesthesia
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0003-2409,1365-2044
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1992.tb04251.x