
Selection of Nutritional Support Delivery Method
Purpose: | Purpose: To aid in the selection of the method for delivery of nutritional support. |
Specialty: | Nutrition Gastroenterology Critical Care |
Objective: | selection |
ICD-10: | D50-D53, E40-E46, E50-E64, E65-E68 |
Description: | Several different methods and routes of nutritional support are available for a patient, the choice of which depends on the nutritional status of the patient, the adequacy of gastrointestinal function and the foreseen duration of need. |
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