Role of enteral and parenteral nutrition in the patient with gastrointestinal and liver disease

Best Pract Res Clin Gastroenterol. 2006;20(3):441-66. doi: 10.1016/j.bpg.2005.11.004.

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.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Dietary Supplements
  • Enteral Nutrition*
  • Food, Formulated
  • Gastrointestinal Diseases / therapy*
  • Humans
  • Liver Diseases / therapy*
  • Nutritional Requirements
  • Parenteral Nutrition*