A Retrospective study of parenteral nutrition support in 7 years periods
xU Pengyuan,XU Shihai,TAN Jing(Dept. of General Surgery of Kunming Medical College 2nd Affiliate Hospital, Kunming 650101)
Abstract: We performed a retrospective study to assess the therapeutic effect of Parenteral Nutrition(PN) support in our hospital. From may 1992 to November 1999, there are about 2 768 patients received the Parenteral Nutrition. The Patients were varied, such as were limited or unusable of gut, be unable to eat (because of coma, severe anoxia, or mental disturbance), severe trauma and stress and all other diseases that may develop to malnutrition. They come from the Gastrointestinal Surgical Department, sICU, Burn Department, Thorax Surgical Department, Orthopedic Department, Neurology Department, Urology Department, and other 10 departments (71. 8% from Surgical Departemnt and 28. 2% from Medical Department).We sum up our experience as following: 1. PN is the important method to treat the patients in dangerous state as the following: The Acute Hemorrhagic pancreantitis, intestine fistula, severe sepsis or trauma, and can bring the healed results. 2. Most of the patients suitable for PN are in the condition of sever stress and metabolism disorders, Principle of nutritious metabolic support should be applied, for an example, we should reduce the percentage of glucose and increased that of nitrogen. 3. To protect the gastrointestinal mucosal barrier is crucial, and the simple but effective way can achieve this object is a small amount of diet and the administration of glutamine by mouth. 4. Although we provide the enough and rational nutriment to the severely traumatic patients, their anabolism situation have not been changed, so it's helpful to use the medicaments with anabolic effect such as the growth hormone 5. The administration of nutrition to cancer patients should be together with chemotherapy and radiotherapy or preoperation. The patients with dysfunction of the liver should be given more branched amino acids. In renal failure eases,the amount of nitrogen should be reduced and provide Essential amino acids. 6. Assessing the availability of the gastrointestinal tract is important. It's better to use the Enteral Nutrition (EN) as earlier as it permits. Since the EN can protect the function of intestine mucosal barrier and ameliorate the microcirculation of visceral blood vessels, and may quicken up the patient's recovery. 7. Be carful about the possible complications of the PN. ABove-mentioned viewpoints will be given a minute description.
