Nutrition support to patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery
Open Access
- 1 December 2003
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nutrition Journal
- Vol. 2 (1), 18
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-2-18
Abstract
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.Keywords
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