Patient-tailored regimes
Critically ill, significantly catabolic, malnourished patients with compromised
metabolic and organ functions (e.g. liver or renal insufficient patients)
sometimes require patient-tailored TPN because their nutrient requirements
are specific and tend to vary significantly from patient to patient and
during each patient's hospital stay.
Traditionally, this kind of nutrition therapy is prepared at the hospital
pharmacy by compounding the different required components into one mixing
bag. This procedure is time consuming and requires extensive technical equipment
and pharmaceutical know how.
Against this background, the NuTRIflex® System allows hospital compounding
services to focus on those 10% - 20% of critically ill patients requiring
patient-tailored nutrition support.
As a result of their physicochemical and pharmaceutical properties, such
all-in-one admixtures are stable for only a few days to several weeks, depending
on their composition.
However, hospital-based compounding in compliance with accepted recommendations
efficiently produces safe, highquality TPN admixtures. |
