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Early Enteral Nutrition in the Surgical Patient

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Gut Dysfunction in Critical Illness

Part of the book series: Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine ((UICM,volume 26))

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Abstract

Malnutrition should clearly be avoided in both the high risk patient undergoing major surgery as well as the critically ill postoperative patient. Immune incompetence [1, 2], poor wound healing [3], increased postoperative complications [4], and prolonged hospital stay [5] have all been linked with malnutrition. Irrespective of the patient's nutritional status prior to ICU admission, a state of nutritional deficiency may occur through delayed and/or inadequate feeding.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Pennsylvania University Hospital, 3400 Spruce Street, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    J. L. Rombeau

  2. Department of Intensive Care Critical Care Research Program, Kuopio University Hospital, FIN-70211, Kuopio, Finland

    J. Takala

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Singer, M. (1996). Early Enteral Nutrition in the Surgical Patient. In: Rombeau, J.L., Takala, J. (eds) Gut Dysfunction in Critical Illness. Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 26. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80224-9_21

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