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 routeKey Pediatric Nursing Interventions — Maternity and Pediatric Nursing▶ 73:55We bypass the entire gastrointestinal systemWe move to parenteral nutrition, delivering complete nutritional substances, carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals directly into the intravenous bloodstreamComparison chart 35 1 breaks down the two distinct types of parenteral nutritionNutrition — 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 chest