1. Patients Requiring Perioperative Nutritional Support
- Author
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T. Miko Enomoto, Dawn M. Larson, and Robert G. Martindale
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,Nutritional Support ,business.industry ,Glutamine ,Probiotics ,Malnutrition ,Nutritional status ,General Medicine ,Perioperative ,Arginine ,medicine.disease ,Immunomodulation ,Nutrition Assessment ,Fatty Acids, Omega-3 ,Preoperative Care ,medicine ,Humans ,Perioperative Period ,Intensive care medicine ,business - Abstract
One of the most important factors affecting outcome and recovery from surgical trauma is preoperative nutritional status. Research in perioperative nutritional support has suffered from a lack of consensus as to the definition of malnutrition, no recognition of which nutrients are important to surgical healing, and a paucity of well-designed studies. In the past decade, there has been some activity to address this situation, recognizing the importance of nutrition as a therapy before surgery, after surgery, and possibly even during surgery.
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- 2013