Enteral feeding pumps: efficacy, safety, and patient acceptability. [PDF]
Enteral feeding is a long established practice across pediatric and adult populations, to enhance nutritional intake and prevent malnutrition. Despite recognition of the importance of nutrition within the modern health agenda, evaluation of the efficacy ...
King, L, White, H
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Enteral nutrition (EN) provides critical macro and micronutrients to individuals who cannot maintain sufficient oral intake to meet their nutritional needs. EN is most commonly required for neurological conditions that impair swallow function, such as stroke, amytrophic lateral sclerosis, and Parkinson’s disease.
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Enteral versus parenteral nutrition in critically ill patients: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials [PDF]
Subgroup analysis comparing the effect of enteral versus parenteral nutrition on infectious complications in higher versus lower quality trials (with the median methodological score 7 as cutoff).
Andrew G. Day +8 more
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BackgroundMalnutrition has been shown to be a risk factor for postoperative complications after pancreatoduodenectomy (PD). In addition, patients needing a PD, such as patients with pancreatic cancer or chronic pancreatitis, often are malnourished.
Gaëtan-Romain Joliat +12 more
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How do physicians and nurses differ in their perceived barriers to effective enteral nutrition in the intensive care unit? [PDF]
Background Patients hospitalized in intensive care units are susceptible to chronic malnutrition from changes in protein and energy metabolism in response to trauma.
Masoumeh Mirhosiny +2 more
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Nutritional and Post-Transplantation Outcomes of Enteral versus Parenteral Nutrition in Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Systematic Review of Randomized and Nonrandomized Studies [PDF]
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) involves the administration of chemotherapy followed by the infusion of donor stem cells. After treatment, children can consequently experience nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, anorexia, and mucositis, which ...
Evans, J. C. +2 more
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Background: Enteral nutrition is nutrition used to fulfill the needs of nutrition entirely and as the supplement for malnutrition patient. In a certain condition of a patient, this nutrition is usually given in the form of liquid.
Dini Ariani +4 more
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How to Feed Critically Ill Patients [PDF]
Nutrition therapy is challenging in critically ill patients. Critical illness is associated with catabolic stress, in which stress hormones and inflammatory mediators are activated, resulting in proteolysis.
Suk-Kyung Hong
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Background: The availability of enteral nutrition is one of nutritional intervention that can be given to prevent a decrease in nutritional intake and nutritional status in HNC patient.
Marvin Marino +2 more
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Hot topics in parenteral nutrition. Current evidence and ongoing trials on the use of glutamine in critically-ill patients and patients undergoing surgery [PDF]
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