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Surgical Nutrition - Coggle Diagram
Surgical Nutrition
Malnutrition
A subacute or chronic state of nutition in which as combination of varying degrees of overnutrition or undernutrition and inflammatory activity has led to a change in body composition and diminished funtion
Causes
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- Acute disease / injury
eg surgery
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Consequences
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- 2-3x mortality risk according to age
- 85% higher risk of hospital admission and reasmission (over 65)
- In surgical pt, wound and anastomotic healing impaired and increased complications risk
- 30% longer length of hospital stay on average
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Nutritional Support
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Routes
Enteral
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Advantages
- Physiological
Maintains gut integrity
Prevents gut status
May prevent streee ulceration
- Compared to PN, EN:
Superior metabolic handling of nutritions
Less infectious complications
Cheaper
PN
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Indications
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- Intestinal fistulae (crohn's)
- Multi trauma involving GIT
- Severe acute pancreatitis +/- complications
- PRolonged paralytic ileus
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- Gut ischaemia, prolonged ileus, gut failure as part o MOF
- GI high output fistula or obstruction distal to feeding tube
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- Extensive reduction of absorptive surgace (SBS - combine with EN)
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