RT Book, Section
A1 Saunders, Katherine H.
A1 Igel, Leon I.
A2 Papadakis, Maxine A.
A2 McPhee, Stephen J.
A2 Rabow, Michael W.
A2 McQuaid, Kenneth R.
SR Print(0)
ID 1193133814
T1 Indications for Nutritional Support
T2 Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2023
YR 2023
FD 2023
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781264687343
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1193133814
RD 2023/09/26
AB Nutritional  support  is  indicated  in  patients  who  are  malnourished  or  at  risk  of  malnourishment.  Common  indications  for  enteral  nutrition  include  dysphagia,  mechanical  ventilation  preventing  oral  nutrition  intake,  the  need  to  feed  the  gut  distal  to  an  obstruction  or  high-output  fistula,  and  hypermetabolic  disease  states,  such  as  burns  and  trauma.  Parenteral  nutrition  is  required  when  enteral  nutrition  is  contraindicated,  or  when  the  GI  tract  has  diminished  function  due  to  underlying  conditions,  including  small  bowel  obstructions,  paralytic  ileus,  short  bowel  syndrome,  and  fistulae.  In  most  other  conditions,  it  has  been  difficult  to  prove  the  efficacy  of  nutritional  support  over  treatment  without  such  support.