The Current Status of Home Total Parenteral Nutrition
- 1 May 1979
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Artificial Organs
- Vol. 3 (2) , 156-160
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1594.1979.tb01031.x
Abstract
The history and current status of home total parenteral nutrition are reviewed. Patients without a functional intestinal tract are able to lead a relatively normal life, infusing their essential nutrients through a Silastic central venous catheter while they sleep at night. The average catheter life is nine months. Suspected sepsis and obstruction of the catheter were the leading causes for catheter removal.Keywords
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