Related Experiment Videos
Clinical efficacy of perioperative nutrition support
1Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110-1093, USA.
Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care
|November 24, 1999
Abstract:
Despite a large number of published randomized prospective controlled clinical trials the indications for perioperative parenteral and enteral nutrition support remain controversial. This article reviews the reports of several recently published consensus conference reports and prospective randomized controlled trials evaluating nutritional therapy in surgical patients.