BACKGROUND & AIMS Home enteral nutrition is used increasingly in pediatric populations. Our objective was to describe the profile of pediatric patients requiring this treatment. MATERIAL AND METHODS All patients under 18 years old requiring treatment with home enteral nutrition between January 1995 and December 2004 were analyzed retrospectively. RESULTS 304 patients were studied (157 boys)...

It is now accepted that, whenever possible, nutritional support should be given enterally, reserving parenteral nutrition for patients with intestinal failure. This is partly because of the many problems associated with parenteral feeding, such as complications of central line insertion and metabolic derangements,1 but recently it has also been appreciated that enteral feeding may have a positi...

The provision of adequate nutrition support for patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been a clinical challenge for decades. The primary and secondary injuries create unique metabolic derangements along with accompanying issues such as optimal timing and route of nutrition, appropriate fluid and electrolytes, drug administration, rehabilitation, and dysphagia. Enteral nutrition is clea...

BACKGROUND Many clinical studies have demonstrated that early postoperative enteral nutrition (EN) improved the postroperative course. Post-pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD), patients tend to suffer from postoperative nausea, abdominal distention, and diarrhoea, causing difficulty in the introduction of EN. In this pilot study, we investigated the appropriate nutritional mode post-pancreatic surgery...

In patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis parenteral nutrition (PN) is indicated when enteral nutrition is not possible or should be avoided for medical reasons. In Crohn's patients PN is indicated when there are signs/symptoms of ileus or subileus in the small intestine, scars or intestinal fistulae. PN requires no specific compounding for chronic inflammatory bowel diseases. In ...

Nutritional support is an important and integral part of the treatment process for critically ill patients. Patients after neurosurgical interventions patients with damage to central nervous system, example, due acute ischemic stroke, may be severity condition in intensive care unit. This a separate category nutritional this has its own characteristics. Enteral nutrition, as most physiological ...

UNLABELLED Very-low-birthweight (VLBW) infants suffer marked growth delay despite well-intentioned efforts at combining enteral and parenteral nutrition. Fear of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) has traditionally influenced neonatologists toward delaying and progressing slowly with enteral feeding, while supporting the infant with parenteral nutrition. Current evidence suggests significant benef...

Abstract Cardiac surgical patients in the intensive care unit certainly develop complex nutritional issues. Nutrition support is indicated these subsets of and same may be customized depending on individual patient characteristics. This review article that aims to examine American Society for Parenteral Enteral guidelines use parenteral enteral nutrition pediatric adult cardiac critical care/in...

Glutamine is considered an essential amino acid during stress and critical illness. Parenteral glutamine supplementation in critically ill patients has been shown to improve survival rate and minimise infectious complications, costs and hospital length-of-stay. However, glutamine supplementation in patients receiving enteral nutrition and the best method of administration are still controversia...