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What is nutrition support?  An alternate means of providing nutrients to people who cannot eat any or enough food  When is it needed?  Illness resulting in inability to take in adequate nutrients by mouth  Illness or surgery that results in malfunctioning gastrointestinal trac...

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  • September 15, 2022
  • 38
  • 2022/2023
  • Summary

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  • nutritional support
  • external nutrition
  • tube feeding access
  • aspiration precaution
  • parenteral access devices
  • tpn
  • tpn prescription
  • ppn
  • contraindication of external nutrition
  • enteral nutrition case study

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What is nutrition support?
 An alternate means of providing nutrients to people who cannot eat
any or enough food

 When is it needed?
 Illness resulting in inability to take in adequate nutrients by
mouth
 Illness or surgery that results in malfunctioning gastrointestinal
tract

 Two types:
 Enteral nutrition
 Parenteral nutrition

, Indications for Enteral Nutrition

 Malnourished patient expected to be unable
to eat adequately for > 5-7 days
 Adequately nourished patient expected to
be unable to eat > 7-9 days
 Adaptive phase of short bowel syndrome
 Following severe trauma or burns

, Contraindications to Enteral Nutrition Support


 Malnourished patient expected to eat within 5-7 days
 Severe acute pancreatitis
 High output enteric fistula distal to feeding tube
 Inability to gain access
 Intractable vomiting or diarrhea
 Aggressive therapy not warranted
 Expected need less than 5-7 days if malnourished
or 7-9 days if normally nourished

, Enteral Access Devices
 Nasogastric
 Nasoenteric
 Gastrostomy
 PEG (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy)
 Surgical or open gastrostomy
 Jejunostomy
 PEJ (percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy)
 Surgical or open jejunostomy
 Transgastric Jejunostomy
 PEG-J (percutaneous endoscopic gastro-jejunostomy)
 Surgical or open gastro-jejunostomy

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