[Aspects of total parenteral nutrition]. 1999

C Grifone
D.U.I. Università degli studi, Chieti.

Parenteral Nutrition has considerably increased the responsiveness to medical or surgical treatment of a patient. All the nourishing infused substances are in an elementary state, ready for a direct utilization by the cells. They offer a caloric and proteinous contribution which is necessary to the metabolic demands of an organism that grows in case of fewer, traumas, scalds, in post surgical time, or in hypermetabolic pathologies. The physician, nurse, and dietician decide the necessity to Total Parenteral Nutrition, valuing the patient's parameters such as: loss of weight, azotic budget, percentage of loss of muscular and lean mass, the patient's inability to tolerate food through gastroenteric way. A careful valuation and a scrupulous treatment by physician and nurse can reduce the risk of complications during parenteral feeding.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D009730 Nursing Assessment Evaluation of the nature and extent of nursing problems presented by a patient for the purpose of patient care planning. Nursing Protocols,Assessment, Nursing,Protocols, Nursing,Assessments, Nursing,Nursing Assessments,Nursing Protocol,Protocol, Nursing
D009752 Nutritional Status State of the body in relation to the consumption and utilization of nutrients. Nutrition Status,Status, Nutrition,Status, Nutritional
D010289 Parenteral Nutrition, Total The delivery of nutrients for assimilation and utilization by a patient whose sole source of nutrients is via solutions administered intravenously, subcutaneously, or by some other non-alimentary route. The basic components of TPN solutions are protein hydrolysates or free amino acid mixtures, monosaccharides, and electrolytes. Components are selected for their ability to reverse catabolism, promote anabolism, and build structural proteins. Hyperalimentation, Parenteral,Intravenous Hyperalimentation,Nutrition, Total Parenteral,Parenteral Hyperalimentation,Total Parenteral Nutrition,Hyperalimentation, Intravenous
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D012307 Risk Factors An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, inborn or inherited characteristic, which, based on epidemiological evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent. Health Correlates,Risk Factor Scores,Risk Scores,Social Risk Factors,Population at Risk,Populations at Risk,Correlates, Health,Factor, Risk,Factor, Social Risk,Factors, Social Risk,Risk Factor,Risk Factor Score,Risk Factor, Social,Risk Factors, Social,Risk Score,Score, Risk,Score, Risk Factor,Social Risk Factor
D015596 Nutrition Assessment Evaluation and measurement of nutritional variables in order to assess the level of nutrition or the NUTRITIONAL STATUS of the individual. NUTRITION SURVEYS may be used in making the assessment. Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI),Assessment, Nutrition,Mini Nutrition Assessment,Mini Nutritional Assessment,Nutrition Assessments,Nutrition Index,Nutrition Indexes,Nutrition Indices,Nutritional Assessment,Nutritional Index,Prognostic Nutritional Index,Assessment, Mini Nutrition,Assessment, Mini Nutritional,Assessment, Nutritional,Assessments, Mini Nutrition,Assessments, Mini Nutritional,Assessments, Nutrition,Assessments, Nutritional,Index, Nutrition,Index, Nutritional,Index, Prognostic Nutritional,Index, Prognostic Nutritional (PNI),Indexes, Nutrition,Indices, Nutrition,Indices, Nutritional,Indices, Prognostic Nutritional,Indices, Prognostic Nutritional (PNI),Mini Nutrition Assessments,Mini Nutritional Assessments,Nutrition Assessment, Mini,Nutrition Assessments, Mini,Nutritional Assessment, Mini,Nutritional Assessments,Nutritional Assessments, Mini,Nutritional Index, Prognostic,Nutritional Index, Prognostic (PNI),Nutritional Indices,Nutritional Indices, Prognostic,Nutritional Indices, Prognostic (PNI),Prognostic Nutritional Indices,Prognostic Nutritional Indices (PNI)

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