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Nutrition in the surgical intensive care patient is an important part of general treatment. However the timing, route and composition of feeding is still subject to controversy. Whereas some investigators have found beneficial effects of early enteral feeding on gastrointestinal (GI) function and integrity, others still believe that postoperative feeding is not necessary at all. This chapter tries to address some issues of current controversy about GI function in the critically ill, based on physiological and pathophysiological aspects and the available literature.
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Stocker, R., Bürgi, U. (1999). Controversies in Nutrition of the Critically Ill. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 1999. Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 1999. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13453-5_10
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