ENTERAL NUTRITION AFTER ADVADVANCED COMBINED OPERATIVE INTERVENTIONS IN ONCOSURGERY

Abstract

Enteral nutrition (EN) – the type of therapeutic or supplementary feeding special mixtures, in which the absorption of food (when it arrives in the mouth through a tube in the stomach or intestines) is performed physiologically appropriate way, that is through the mucous membranes of the gastrointestinal tract. This review will address such aspects of enteral nutrition (EN) in patients who are in intensive care unit (ICU), the composition, components, methods of delivery, complications of EP.

Keywords

• nutritional support
• enteral nutrition