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Ethics and nutrition

J MacFie1

  • 1Combined Gastroenterology Unit, Scarborough Hospital, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift
|December 31, 1997
PubMed
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Providing nutritional support is ethically crucial for patients with inadequate oral intake for seven days or more. Withholding this therapy is considered unethical, shifting focus beyond terminally ill or comatose patients.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Ethics
  • Surgical Nutrition
  • Clinical Practice Guidelines

Background:

  • Extensive literature exists on withholding/withdrawing nutritional support from terminally ill, comatose, or vegetative patients.
  • Limited ethical discussions address nutritional therapy for other patient populations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a surgeon's perspective on the ethical considerations of nutritional therapy.
  • To establish an ethical standard for providing nutritional support in clinical practice.

Main Methods:

  • Review of ethical principles in surgical nutrition.
  • Analysis of clinical scenarios involving inadequate oral intake.

Main Results:

  • Identified ethical gaps in nutritional support for non-terminal/non-comatose patients.

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  • Proposed a threshold for ethically mandated nutritional support.

    • Conclusions:

    • Failure to provide nutritional support for patients with >=7 days of inadequate oral intake is unethical.
    • Recommends a proactive approach to nutritional therapy across diverse patient groups.
    • Highlights the surgeon's role in ethical nutritional care.