Management and Prevention of Possible Complications Associated with Total Parenteral Nutrition / 한양의대학술지

ABSTRACT

Nutritional therapy with total parenteral nutrition (TPN) is usually performed in the critically ill patients who cannot ingest or digest food through the gastrointestinal tract. The process of well managed nutritional support by TPN is not simple, nor easy. Doctors experience various complications, the patients also suffer from much discomfort. Especially the younger patients, they are labile to more complications. The physicians should know thoroughly how to avoid the complications, how to effectively supply TPN solution to the patients. The author reviews the numerous complications during TPN and the methods for the prevention of complications.