Parenteral Nutrition
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Nutritional Supplements & Parenteral Nutrition — Lilley's Pharmacology for Canadian Health Care Practice▶ 1:29Okay, highway number one, enteral nutrition, that means using the GI tract, if at all possible, and highway number twoThat's parenteral nutrition, often called TPN, total parenteral nutritionThat's the bypass routeNutrition — Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine▶ 13:50If there is an intestinal obstruction or an alias where the gut is completely paralyzed, enteral feeding is impossibleYou have to bypass the gut entirely and use parenteral nutrition, or PN, which is direct intravenous feedingAdministering parenteral nutrition forces a choice between using a peripheral arm vein or placing a central venous catheter deep into the chestNutritional Therapy — Introduction to Critical Care Nursing▶ 8:10Do we use the gut or bypass it entirelyThis is the choice between enteral nutrition, or EN, and parenteral nutrition, or PNEN is feeding via the GI tract and it is always the preferred route if the patient has a functioning gut