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  • Title: Role of enteral and parenteral nutrition in the patient with gastrointestinal and liver disease.
    Author: Stratton RJ, Smith TR.
    Journal: Best Pract Res Clin Gastroenterol; 2006; 20(3):441-66. PubMed ID: 16782523.
    Abstract:
    This chapter discusses a number of key issues: the importance of nutritional support, both enteral (oral nutritional supplements, enteral tube feeding) and parenteral nutrition in the treatment of the nutritionally compromised patient with gastrointestinal and liver disease; prescribing and monitoring nutritional support; refeeding syndrome; practicalities, indications and contraindications and complications of using enteral and parenteral nutrition; choosing feeds with an optimal nutrient composition for nutritional support, including specific feeds for disease states; the evidence base for using nutritional support in the patient with gastrointestinal and liver disease.
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