Patients Requiring Perioperative Nutritional Support

• Autores: T. Miko Enomoto, Dawn Larson, Robert G. Martindale
• Localización: Medical clinics of North America, ISSN 0025-7125, Vol. 97, Nº. 6, 2013 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Pre-operative Management of the Patient with Chronic Disease), págs. 1181-1200
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.