Nasogastric tube insertion is a routine clinical procedure for nutritional support, gastric aspiration and decompression. Although it is generally a safe procedure, complication rates range from 0.3~8%. Submucosal esophageal dissection is a rare disorder caused by mucosal tearing and bleeding between the mucosal and muscular layers of the esophagus, leading to their separation. We report a case of submucosal esophageal dissection secondary to the accidental iatrogenic intramural insertion of a nasogastric tube.
Decompression ; Esophagus ; Hemorrhage ; Nutritional Support

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Critical Illness* ; Humans ; Nutritional Support*

Severe burns can lead to sustained hypermetabolism in the body, resulting in delayed wound healing, and malnutrition, dysfunction, and even death of patients. It is critical to carry out adequate nutritional risk assessment and provide individualized nutritional support to improve the prognosis of patients with severe burns. This paper describes and summarizes precision nutrition support for severe burn patients from theory to clinical practice.
Burns/therapy* ; Humans ; Nutritional Support

Malnutrition is common in patients with inflammatory bowel disease(IBD). The therapeutic role of nutrition has attracted more and more attention in the development of IBD. In recent years, researches have demonstrated that nutrition support has its unique advantages in improving patients nutritional status and reducing adverse events, and it has been recommended as the first line therapy in children with active Crohn disease. Since there are no standardized guidelines of nutritional support therapy worldwide, this article is to review the relationship between nutrition and IBD, the choice of nutritional therapy mode, the duration of the nutritional treatment and evaluation of therapeutic effects based on Expert Consensus on Nutrition Support Therapy of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (2013·Shenzhen).
Child ; Humans ; Inflammatory Bowel Diseases ; therapy ; Nutritional Status ; Nutritional Support

For many years, the major concerns in the treatment of a major burn injury have always been shock resuscitation, infection control, and wound treatment, while nutrition has been considered as a subordinate concern. The concept of nutrition in the treatment of a major burn has been recognized as "nutrition support", only with the purpose of restraining negative nitrogen balance through administration of energy and protein, in order to prevent malnutrition in patients with severe burn. In recent 10 years, however, increasing evidences have showed that optimal nutritional management could improve the outcome of severe burn patients. Now it is recognized that nutrition is not only to provide exogenous nutrients to improve nutritional status of the patients, but also to regulate cell metabolism, enhance cell activity, maintain and uphold the structure and function of the gastrointestinal mucosa, thus to improve patient's outcome. Therefore, the term of "nutrition support"seems to be far from comprehensiveness to reflect the purpose and the aim of this important treatment strategy. Medical literatures especially those in nutritional guidelines have begun to use the term of "nutrition therapy" instead of "nutrition support", which typifies the changes in nutritional concept, aim, means, and clinical evaluation. The aim of nutrition has changed from simply "providing nutritional substrate and improving nutritional status of patients" to "regulating cell metabolism, maintaining organ structure and function, and ultimately improving outcome of patient". Meanwhile, nutritional means has been more consummate, including special nutrients, hormones, and growth factors, in addition to use of conventional nutrients, in order to enhance therapeutic effect of nutrition in treatment of massive burn injury. Burn nutrition is no longer confined to maintenance of positive nitrogen balance, it should also consider the regulation of cell activity, metabolic status, immune and organ function. The purpose of the article is to analyze and discuss the important issues concerning nutrition therapy in treatment of burn injury, including risk screening, optimal energy supply and ratio of different nutritional ingredients, the choice of special nutrient, as well as the determination of optimal time for giving various nutritional supplements.
Burns ; therapy ; Humans ; Nutrition Therapy ; Nutritional Status ; Nutritional Support

The incidence of lymphoma has increased annually. The nutrition status of lymphoma patients influences their quality of life and even the tolerance to treatment. This review summarizes the resting energy expenditure of untreated lymphoma patients, influence of chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation on nutrition status, and individualized nutrition support for these patients.
Basal Metabolism ; Humans ; Lymphoma ; therapy ; Nutritional Status ; Nutritional Support

Humans ; Malnutrition ; etiology ; Neoplasms ; therapy ; Nutritional Status ; Nutritional Support ; Prognosis

Nutritional risk and malnutrition was significantly higher in patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery as compared to patients in other surgical departments, especially in elder patients, which would directly impact on the efficacy, cost and prognosis. Nutritional screening and assessment should be performed within 24-48 hours after admission. Patients at high risk of malnutrition should be planned with early nutrition support. The best nutrition route should be determined to improve the outcomes of surgery and nutritional support, reduce the complications, length of hospital stay and healthcare costs, and improve the quality of life in patients.
Digestive System Surgical Procedures ; Humans ; Nutritional Status ; Nutritional Support ; methods

Our hospital has a nutrition support team (NST) serving inpatients of all department. Two years ago, the team started activities with the motto “Apt nutritional management for inpatients”. It is an interdepartmental unit consisting of physicians, nurses, dietitians, pharmacists and speech therapists. Initially we found it difficult to make time to join forces, but now it has become possible to screen patients for undernourishment on a weekly basis while making nutritional assessment and planning, and holding consultations. The main purpose of the consultations is to improve the nutritional status of patients according to plans formulated after nutritional assessment made at the request of physicians and nurses in charge of the patients. To achieve the objective, we are expected to concentrate all our efforts and brains. This paper presents some consultation cases we have handled. In addition, the nutritional assessment and nutritional intervention activities of our hospital are described.
Nutrition Assessment ; Nutritional status ; Nutritional Support ; Hospitals ; Consultation

Critical Illness ; therapy ; Humans ; Nutritional Support