Protocol for peripheral parenteral nutrition management ready to use in surgical patients

• Published in: Nutrición hospitalaria : organo oficial de la Sociedad Española de Nutrición Parenteral y Enteral Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 1003 - 1011
• Main Authors: Pinzón Espitia, Olga Lucia, Varón Vega, Martha Liliana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Spain 03.10.2014
• Subjects: Clinical Protocols; Cost Savings; Dietary Proteins - administration & dosage; Disease Management; Elective Surgical Procedures; Energy Intake; Food, Formulated; Forms and Records Control; Hospital Records - standards; Humans; Malnutrition - prevention & control; Nutritional Requirements; Parenteral Nutrition - economics; Parenteral Nutrition - methods; Parenteral Nutrition - trends; Patient Satisfaction; Postoperative Care - economics; Postoperative Care - methods; Postoperative Complications - prevention & control; Prescriptions; Protein-Energy Malnutrition - prevention & control; Vascular Access Devices
• ISSN: 1699-5198
• DOI: 10.3305/nh.2015.31.3.8123

Patients undergoing elective surgery, require a comprehensive clinical treatment that tends to maintain or prevent deterioration of nutritional status and promote clinical outcomes, and in turn improve the safety of parenteral nutrition therapy through optimization of technology, as a option aimed at minimizing risk and lower operating costs in institutions providing health services. To review the literature in order to study the requirements and recommendations of peripheral parenteral nutritional support and / or complementary ready to use in people undergoing surgery. Data synthesis after reviewing the relevant literature, to allow the protocol design. The search was conducted in the following databases: PubMed, Medline, Embase and ScienceDirect. Peripheral parenteral nutrition is a ready to use alternative nutritional support that improves the contribution Protein-Energy and demonstrate improvements in patient safety, decrease costs and increase patient satisfaction.