Week 2: Surgery and Nutrition support

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Once placed on an oral diet following a gastrectomy, an appropriate meal would consist of

a scrambled egg and toast.

Total parenteral nutrition formulas provide protein in the form of

amino acids

If the intestinal drainage from an ostomy site is still liquid, the patient has

an ileostomy.

What is given to spare protein for tissue building?

carbohydrates

After a cholecystectomy, an example of a food item that may need to be decreased is

fried chicken.

Before general surgery, nothing is given by mouth for at least...

8 hours

A good source of vitamin C, important during the healing process is

Broccoli

What is the primary gastrointestinal side effect associated with tube feedings?

Diarrhea

Following a cholecystectomy, what nutrient should be reduced?

Fat

A male patient needs to have his gall bladder removed. His appetite has been poor, and he had lost 20 lb in the pat 4 months. Before surgery he should...

Increase his intake of energy, protein, vitamins, and minerals

Bolus feedings

Increase risk for aspiration

Blood losses may result in a deficiency of

Iron

Immediately following a gastrectomy, initial postoperative nutrition feedings are met by...

Jejunostomy feedings

What type of fluids should be administered during the ebb phase following a burn?

Lactated Ringer's solution

How is central parenteral nutrition (TPN) administered?

Large central vein catheter

What intervention can help reduce dumping syndrome?

Reducing dietary fat

Why is food intake restricted at least 8 hours before surgery?

To prevent aspiration of stomach contents

A food item that would be an appropriate part of a full liquid diet is

chocolate ice cream.

Patients who experience oxidative stress may be at risk to have

decreased zinc levels.

An appropriate tube feeding route for a patient at high risk for aspiration is

jejunostomy.

The most common nutritional deficiency among surgical patient's is a deficiency of...

protein

Patient's who have had radical surgery of the head, neck, or throat may require...

tube feedings

What physical finding helps identify protein-energy malnutrition?

unplanned weight loss

What are all formulas enriched with?

vitamin and mineral

Physiologic symptoms of dumping syndrome result from

water being drawn from the blood into the intestine and decreasing the blood volume.


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