Nutrition in Surgical patients - Enteral nutrition and parenteral nutrition - Prescribing nutrition
The video gives a case-based approach to prescribing nutrition in surgical patients on your rounds or in the out-patient department. It answers all the relevant questions that you need to ask yourself while prescribing nutrition for your patients.
The key questions include is nutritional support required? If yes, enteral nutrition or parenteral nutrition and how to give such as nasogastric feeding or nasojejunal feeding or oral feeds and parenteral nutrition by a central line, peripheral line, or peripherally inserted central line. The next question answered is the route of administration, calculating the calorie and protein needs in your patient, and how to monitor the patient's nutritional needs.
The talk also discusses briefly what is sarcopenia, what is cachexia, what is a subjective global assessment and what is nutritional risk screening. It next gives a proper step-by-step approach to prescribing nutrition to your patients. It then discusses the different formulas such as polymeric formula, elemental formula, immune-enhancing formulas, and so on.
This and part 2 of this talk will cover all the key aspects of nutrition in surgery. Nutritional assessment, nutritional requirement, and applying the knowledge regarding both are all separate issues and I hope this video addresses the practical aspects of nutrition prescribing.