Whole-course nutrition management promotes postoperative rehabilitation of elderly patients / 中华老年医学杂志

ABSTRACT

As aging in our society picks up pace, the number of elderly patients undergoing surgery is increasing every year.Recovery of elderly surgical patients is affected by poor nutrition, frailty, decline of cardiopulmonary function and other health issues.A new concept of surgical nutrition, whole-course nutrition management, advocates multi-disciplinary and multi-modal intervention to improve the clinical outcome of patients and to promote postoperative rehabilitation.Here whole-course nutritional management is summarized to provide theoretical basis for effectively promoting postoperative rehabilitation of elderly patients.