Nutrition support to patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Nutritional depletion has been demonstrated to be a major determinant of the development of post-operative complications. Gastrointestinal surgery patients are at risk of nutritional depletion from inadequate nutritional intake, surgical stress and the subsequent...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2003-12-01
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| Series: | Nutrition Journal |
| Online Access: | http://www.nutritionj.com/content/2/1/18 |