Timely feeding matters
Starting enteral nutrition early helps to achieve nutritional targets and to avoid energy and protein deficits.
More than 40 years' experience in tube feeding
Fresenius’ first enteral nutrition product was developed in 1975 in Bad Homburg (central Germany). Since then, Fresenius Kabi has become an internationally recognised expert in clinical nutrition, providing enteral nutrition products to patients in more than 100 countries.
Four decades of continuous research and development in close collaboration with healthcare professionals across the world have produced a sophisticated portfolio that meets patients’ needs in accordance with their conditions, diseases and ages. Ongoing development and innovation regularly lead to product updates and entirely new product concepts based on the latest scientific findings and technological advances.
Timely Tube feeding matters.pdf
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Expert interview
In this interview Dr. S. Gabe, Gastrologist, St. Marks Hospital, Harrow UK, explains the benefits of early tube feeding and when it is indicated. He also discusses the existing reservations with regard to tube feeding and how to overcome them.
Go directly to the different sections of the interview here:
The benefits
Long term usage
The requirements
Common reservations
Overcoming reservations
The importance
Wishes for future
Benefits of timely enteral tube feeding:
- Increases nutritional intake: 62% of total energy in hospitalised patients vs. routine care1 and more than 2.5 times amount of protein vs. oral intake/non-intervention group2
- A good nutritional status
- Attenuates loss of body weight and lean tissue in hospitalised patients1
- Can support the wound healing process of the body1
- Can help to improve the immune function1
- Helps to reduce infectious complications, sepsis, wound and urinary tract infections1,3
- Could give the possibility to reduce medications for some patient groups1
- Leads to fewer and shorter hospital admissions4
- Reduces mortality rate of hospitalised patients (-12%)1
- Can help to improve clinical outcomes in community patients1
Perioperative nutrition should be considered to maintain a good nutritional status – not only to avoid postoperative complications but also to trigger positive effects on the general well-being of the patient.1
