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Nutritional Support

New England Journal of Medicine, 1997
Nutritional support currently accounts for about 1% of the total health care costs in the USA. Interestingly, most of the prospective randomized controlled trials to date have not been able to demonstrate that this therapeutic intervention alters morbidity or mortality. In fact, parenteral nutritional support may predispose the recipients to developing
J. Ofman, R. L. Koretz
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Nutritional support

Chest Surgery Clinics of North America, 2002
Despite the increasing obesity of the American population, many chronically ill patients are malnourished. When this malnutrition is combined with the hypermetabolic response and protein catabolism of an acute event, such as an operation, nutritional support becomes an important facet for optimal critical care. This chapter reviews the basic tenants of
Katherine, Trahan, Dennis C, Gore
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Perioperative Nutritional Support

Cirugía Española (English Edition), 2014
The relationship between preoperative malnutrition and morbi-mortality has been documented for years. Despite the existence of tools that allow its detection, and therefore treat this entity, their introduction into clinical practice is not wide-spread.
Jesús Manuel, Morán López   +6 more
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