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Surgical Nutrition and Post-Surgical Management

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The importance of nutrition in surgical patients is paramount. The role and optimization of various types of nutrition in this context is an area of active research. This chapter will review current surgical nutrition and post-surgical management paradigms. This will include discussion of classic nutrition support modalities both enterally and parenterally and their subsequent effects on patient outcomes. The role of perioperative nutritional optimization will also be discussed, as will be the role of total parenteral nutrition in the setting of intestinal failure. The chapter concludes with analysis of several special circumstances in surgical nutrition, including the role of early post-operative feeding and enhanced recovery protocols.

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Schucht, J., Marshall, W.A., Brown, C., Caminiti, N., Rosenthal, M. (2022). Surgical Nutrition and Post-Surgical Management. In: Newberry, C., Laster, J., Pickett-Blakely, O. (eds) Nutrition, Weight, and Digestive Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94953-2_9

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