Hospital pharmacy service for a long-term home total parenteral nutrition (tpn) patient with short bowel syndrome: a case report

• At: 2008 FIP Congress in Basel (Switzerland)
• Type: Poster
• By: KONTRA, Kirsi (Kuopio University Hospital, Department of Pharmacy, Kuopio, Finland)
• Co-author(s): Hallikainen, Maarit (Department of Clinical Nutrition, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland)
  Gylling, Helena (Department of Clinical Nutrition, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland)
  
• Abstract:

  The use of home parenteral nutrition (PN) is rare in Finland. Most PN for hospitalized adults is administered as commercial multi-compartment bags. The compounding of individualized PN admixtures takes place in hospital pharmacy and is important for pediatric and long-term home PN patients. A long-term home total parenteral nutrition (TPN) therapy ..

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