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Access and Complications of Parenteral Nutrition

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Nutrition Support for the Critically Ill

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Choosing proper access for parenteral nutrition requires an understanding of vascular anatomy as well as the various types of catheters. But it also requires an understanding of how location can impact on complicatoin rates. The most common complications of parenteral nutrition include mechanical (eg pneumothorax, bleeding, or venous thrombosis), infections (eg central line associated blood stream infection), and metabolic (eg refeeding syndrome, hyperglycemia.

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Neel, D.R. (2016). Access and Complications of Parenteral Nutrition. In: Seres, D., Van Way, III, C. (eds) Nutrition Support for the Critically Ill. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21831-1_7

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