Nutritional management in patients with gastrointestinal tumors in the surgical department
Journal Title: JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY & OUTCOMES RESEARCH - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
The last quarter of 25 years is undoubtedly a milestone in clinical nutrition in Poland. The current years have shown the growing importance of this medical area, which is now a component of many therapies. A better nourished patient means more effective pharmacotherapy, faster wound healing, less fewer complications - especially in the postoperative time, a shorter period of hospitalization, and, consequently, lower costs of treatment. Nutritional treatment is particularly important in surgical departments and for many years has been one of the basic procedures for care of the patient. In the present time, this is the basic skill of a doctor. The choice of treatment method should justify the patient's clinical condition, type and degree of malnutrition and the duration of therapy. The duty of each doctor treating oncological patients (surgical, chemotherapeutic or radiotherapeutic) is a particularly thorough assessment of the nutritional status of the patients and, if appropriate, the implementation of the nutritional intervention as quick as possible. The earlier the metabolic actions are taken, the more comfortable the patient lives becomes and the better the results of the treatment are observed.
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Agnieszka Michalczewska, Grzegorz Wallner
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- DOI 10.7365/JHPOR.2017.2.8
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