Nutritional Support of Hospitalized Patients

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Abstract
AS limits of nutritional-support programs are tested, the tendency is to simplify regimens for nutrition, to exhaust means of enterai and peripheral-vein supplementation before resorting to central parenteral nutrition, and to scrutinize the advocacy of some uses of total parenteral nutrition; these policies guide our practice. Our chief index for advising nutritional support sufficient to meet or exceed a patient's basal energy requirements is the common definition of caloric malnutrition: loss of 10 per cent of usual weight, coupled with inability to eat or absorb enough food to reverse the depleted state.Although otherwise normal patients might be expected to . . .