Complications and Monitoring – Guidelines on Parenteral Nutrition, Chapter 11

Compared to enteral or hypocaloric oral nutrition, the use of PN (parenteral nutrition) is not associated with increased mortality, overall frequency of complications, or longer length of hospital stay (LOS). The risk of PN complications (e.g. refeeding-syndrome, hyperglycaemia, bone demineralisatio...

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Main Authors: Working group for developing the guidelines for parenteral nutrition of The German Association for Nutritional Medicine, Rittler, P., Parhofer, K., Jauch, K. W., Hartl, W. H.
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2009-11-01
Series:GMS German Medical Science
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Online Access:http://www.egms.de/static/en/journals/gms/2009-7/000076.shtml