The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses released standardized guidelines to assist nurses in caring for patients undergoing prone positioning therapy, according to a May 16 practice alert. In ...

The role of nutrition in patient care became a part of mainstream medicine at about the end of the 1960s, with the publication of several papers that showed a benefit of nutritional support in the ...

Enteral nutrition what goes through a tube feeding to replace or supplement oral nutrition. If you cannot get enough nutrition by eating or drinking through your mouth, you may need a feeding tube.

Enteral nutrition is defined as the provision of essential nutrients through an enteral tube to prevent or treat disease-related malnutrition in patients who are unable to consume adequate nutrients ...

Forty-six oral medications communly used in hospitalized patients were evaluated. Study investigators identified these medications as the formulary medications most frequently prescribed in the ...

Recently, the Healthcare Nutrition Council submitted their position on distinctive nutritional requirements (DNR) that was published in Current Developments in Nutrition. Patients and health care ...

Patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI) have suboptimal secretion of pancreatic digestive enzymes and experience a range of clinical symptoms related to the malabsorption of fat. In ...

A review of the English-language medical literature from 1949 to 2008 was conducted to identify primary literature based on the controlled vocabulary of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. The ...