Nutrition & Gastrointestinal Disease

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The bowel is one of the most abused of all organs in ICU. Important topics include:

Dobutamine in splanchnic resuscitation;
Early enteral feeding - pros & cons
Total parenteral nutrition
Diarrhoea in ICU
Bowel ischaemia in ICU
Can we protect the threatened bowel?
Intestinal infections in ICU
The short bowel syndrome
Assessing gastrointestinal tract (GIT) function

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