Nutrition support to patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery

AUTOR(ES)

Ward, Nicola

FONTE

BioMed Central

RESUMO

Nutritional depletion has been demonstrated to be a major determinant of the development of post-operative complications. Gastrointestinal surgery patients are at risk of nutritional depletion from inadequate nutritional intake, surgical stress and the subsequent increase in metabolic rate.

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