The United Kingdom Nutrition Database monitors the changing landscape of adult home parenteral nutrition support to inform clinicians and policy makers of the need for these treatments.
United Kingdom artificial nutrition database: The changing landscape of adult home parenteral support.
Journal of Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition.
Tutorial on adult enteral tube feeding: Indications, placement, removal, complications, and ethics.
Journal of Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition.
A tutorial regarding gastrostomy tubes, postpyloric feeding tubes, feeding jejunostomy tubes and dual-lumen gastrojejunostomy tubes.
Effect of blenderized tube feeds on gastric emptying: A retrospective cohort study.
Journal of Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition
Blenderized tube feeds are associated with reduced hospital admissions and gastroesophageal symptoms, but may theoretically prolong gastric emptying because of their high viscosity. Our objective was to compare differences in gastric emptying with blenderized tube feeds versus with formula.
Postpyloric vs gastric enteral nutrition in critically ill children: A single-center retrospective cohort study.
Journal of Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition.
We compared enteral nutrition delivery in patients receiving postpyloric enteral nutrition versus gastric enteral nutrition.
Standardizing and optimizing nutrition evaluation frequency of enterally fed patients in an ambulatory pediatric gastroenterology practice: A single-center study.
Nutrition in Clinical Practice.
We identified lack of consistency in dietitian evaluations for our pediatric patients receiving home enteral nutrition. We underwent a quality improvement initiative to improve rates of adherence to standard frequency of dietitian consults and referrals among patients receiving home enteral nutrition.
Immunonutrition vs standard nutrition for patients with cancer.
Nutrition in Clinical Practice.
The review is a previously published meta-analysis that showed important benefits from the perioperative use of an immunonutrition formula in adult patients with cancer undergoing an elective major surgical operation.
Long-term nutrition alterations after surgery for gastrointestinal cancers.
Nutrition in Clinical Practice.
This review is for the benefit of multidisciplinary teams in understanding the postoperative anatomy, physiology, and nutrition morbidity of gastrointestinal cancer operations.
Nutrition therapy during noninvasive ventilation: oral or enteral?.
Current Opinion in Critical Care.
Critical care nutrition guidelines focus on patients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation despite noninvasive ventilation being an increasingly common intervention. The optimal nutrition route in patients receiving noninvasive ventilation has not been established. This review aims to describe the implications of noninvasive ventilation on the route of feeding prescribed.
Nutritional interventions in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy: systematic review
Revista Paulista de Pediatria.
The objective was to review the literature for the most suitable and effective nutritional interventions and indications for the nutritional treatment of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy
A Case of Abnormal Liver Function Tests in a Patient Receiving Total Parenteral Nutrition.
Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports.
The case of a 56-year-old female patient with severe protein-calorie malnutrition on total parenteral nutrition. She exhibited significantly elevated liver enzymes during the routine periodic assessment.