Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition: When and How Is Appropriate?
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 2827
Special Issue Editors
Interests: artificial nutrition; home enteral nutrition; geriatrics; dysphagia; microbiota
Interests: artificial nutrition; home enteral nutrition; geriatrics; dysphagia; caregiving; quality indicators
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Enteral and parenteral nutrition represent extreme nutritional interventions that are used only when patients are unable to meet their protein–caloric needs otherwise. They are used in all fields, including pediatric patients and patients with acute conditions, but their use is particularly frequent in patients with chronic conditions, frail and older subjects, or those at the end of life. Both nutritional therapies are normally provided to patients following the instructions contained in the guidelines, which are specific for different categories of patients. Some of them, however, have important deficiencies regarding the level of detail of the indications provided and, above all, the solidity of the evidence on which they are based. These characteristics of the guidelines leave room for the adoption of very different practices and do not guarantee uniformity of outcomes. In addition, in the case of artificial nutrition, clinical decisions must take into account ethical aspects, even more so than in other fields of medicine.
There is still a need to deepen knowledge and collect more evidence that can help ensure greater safety for patients, the achievement of therapy goals, and improvement in caregivers' living conditions. The tools useful for evaluating the quality of the current choices and practices in different phases of the administration of artificial nutrition are also necessary.
This Special Issue of Nutrients welcomes original research and reviews covering a wide range of topics that are relevant for defining the appropriateness of artificial nutrition in different settings (hospital, home, and nursing homes) and in different populations of patients, as well as to deep the knowledge about the needs of formal and informal caregivers.
Dr. Paolo Orlandoni
Guest Editors
Dr. Nikolina Jukic Peladic
Co-Guest Editor
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Keywords
- enteral nutrition
- parenteral nutrition
- home enteral nutrition
- home parenteral nutrition
- quality of nutrition therapy
- quality assessment
- safety
- complications
- outcomes
- ethics
- indications for artificial nutrition
- feeding formulas
- access routs
- caregiving for subjects in artificial nutrition
- cost–benefit analyses
