Combined enteral feeding and total parenteral nutritional support improves outcome in surgical intensive care unit patients | Zendy

Min-Hui Hsu | Zendy; Ying Yu | Zendy; Yueh-Miao Tsai | Zendy; Hui-Chen Lee | Zendy; YaWen Jessica Huang | Zendy; HanShui Hsu | Zendy

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Combined enteral feeding and total parenteral nutritional support improves outcome in surgical intensive care unit patients

Author(s) -

Min-Hui Hsu,

Ying Yu,

Yueh-Miao Tsai,

Hui-Chen Lee,

YaWen Jessica Huang,

HanShui Hsu

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of the chinese medical association

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.535

H-Index - 42

eISSN - 1728-7731

pISSN - 1726-4901

DOI - 10.1016/j.jcma.2012.06.017

Subject(s) - medicine , parenteral nutrition , calorie , enteral administration , intensive care unit , apache ii , body mass index , intensive care medicine

For intensive care unit (ICU) patients with gastrointestinal dysfunction and in need of total parenteral nutrition (TPN) support, the benefit of additional enteral feeding is not clear. This study aimed to investigate whether combined TPN with enteral feeding is associated with better outcomes in surgical intensive care unit (SICU) patients.

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