feeding a nutrient solution into the stomach through a tube through a surgically created opening
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Oesophageal bezoar as a complication of enteral nutrition in critically ill patients. Two case studies.
Gil-Almagro F1, Carmona-Monge FJ2.
Intensive & critical care nursing : the official journal of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses.Intensive Crit Care Nurs.2016 Feb;32:29-32. doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2015.08.003. Epub 2015 Nov 1.
Enteral nutrition has a relatively low incidence of major complications. The most common complications are mechanical problems, bronchoaspiration and diarrhoea. A rare complication associated with the use of enteral nutrition is oesophageal bezoar. A bezoar is a body of undigested and partially dige
Enhanced Protein-Energy Provision via the Enteral Route Feeding (PEPuP) protocol in critically ill surgical patients: a multicentre prospective evaluation.
Declercq B1, Deane AM2, Wang M3, Chapman MJ4, Heyland DK3.
Anaesthesia and intensive care.Anaesth Intensive Care.2016 Jan;44(1):93-8.
Suboptimal levels of feeding in critically ill patients are associated with poor clinical outcomes. The Enhanced Protein-Energy Provision via the Enteral Route Feeding (PEPuP) protocol was developed to improve nutritional delivery in the critically ill and has been studied in several hospitals. Howe
Nutrition in Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantion - Clinical Guidelines and Immunobiological Aspects.
Tvedt TH, Reikvam H, Bruserud Ø1.
Current pharmaceutical biotechnology.Curr Pharm Biotechnol.2016;17(1):92-104.
Even though malnutrition is associated with an adverse prognosis after allogeneic stem cell transplantation, few studies have addressed the question what is the optimal nutritional support for these patients. There is a general agreement that the body weight, body mass index and nutritional intake c
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gastrogavage /gas·tro·ga·vage/ (-gah-vahzh´) artificial feeding through a tube passed into the stomach. gas·tro·ga·vage (găs′trō-gə-väzh′) n. See gavage. gastrogavage A term of waning use for the feeding of a patient via a nasal gastric ...