Use of artificial nutrition near the end of life: Results from a French national population‐based study of hospitalized cancer patients [PDF]
Background The use of artificial nutrition, defined as a medical treatment that allows a non‐oral mechanical feeding, for cancer patients with limited life expectancy is deemed nonbeneficial.
Karine Baumstarck +8 more
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Pharmaceutical Aspects of Artificial Nutrition. [PDF]
Artificial nutrition, including enteral (EN) and parenteral (PN) nutrition, is indicated whenever adequate oral nutrition fails to sufficiently supply the necessary nutrients to the body. It is a convenient, efficacious, safe, and well-tolerated form of clinical nutrition in the hospital and home setting.
Reber E +3 more
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Long-Term Survival of Patients Receiving Artificial Nutrition in Japanese Psychiatric Hospitals [PDF]
Background/Aims: Most patients with dementia suffer from dysphagia in the terminal stage of the disease. In Japan, most elderly patients with dysphagia receive either tube feeding or total parenteral nutrition. Methods: In this study, we investigated the
Keiichi Abe +16 more
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HANA: A Healthy Artificial Nutrition Analysis model during COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
Background and objective The impact of diet on COVID-19 patients has been a global concern since the pandemic began. Choosing different types of food affects peoples’ mental and physical health and, with persistent consumption of certain types of food ...
Shams MY +5 more
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ERAS with or without supplemental artificial nutrition in open pancreatoduodenectomy for cancer. A multicenter, randomized, open labeled trial (RASTA study protocol) [PDF]
PurposeThe role of supplemental artificial nutrition in patients perioperatively treated according to enhanced recovery programs (ERAS) on surgery-related morbidity is not known.
Luca Gianotti +8 more
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Stress Hyperglycemia and Osteocalcin in COVID-19 Critically Ill Patients on Artificial Nutrition. [PDF]
We aimed to study the possible association of stress hyperglycemia in COVID-19 critically ill patients with prognosis, artificial nutrition, circulating osteocalcin, and other serum markers of inflammation and compare them with non-COVID-19 patients ...
Arrieta F +10 more
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The Difficult Decision Not to Prescribe Artificial Nutrition by Health Professionals and Family: Bioethical Aspects [PDF]
IntroductionBioethics and nutrition are essential issues in end of life, advanced dementia, life-sustaining therapies, permanent vegetative status, and unacceptably minimal quality of life.
Andrea Z. Pereira +4 more
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Impact of Artificial Nutrition on Postoperative Complications. [PDF]
Malnutrition is common in surgical cancer patients and it is widely accepted that it can adversely affect their postoperative outcome. Assessing the nutritional status of every patient, in particular care of elderly and cancer patients, is a crucial ...
Sandrucci S, Cotogni P, De Zolt Ponte B.
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Considerations for the management of home parenteral nutrition during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: A position paper from the Home Artificial Nutrition and Chronic Intestinal Failure Special Interest Group of ESPEN. [PDF]
The management of patients with chronic intestinal failure requiring home parenteral nutrition has been and will continue to be impaired during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
Lal S +12 more
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Paediatric Home Artificial Nutrition in Italy: Report from 2016 Survey on Behalf of Artificial Nutrition Network of Italian Society for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (SIGENP). [PDF]
Home Artificial Nutrition (HAN) is a safe and efficacious technique that insures children’s reintegration into the family, society and school. Epidemiological data on paediatric HAN in Italy are not available.
Lezo A +24 more
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