Total Parenteral Nutrition is utilized to provide complete nutrition when oral means are not possible due to disease process. It can be a short-term or long-term therapy, depending on diagnosis.

• Patients must have long-term venous access device in place.
• Administered utilizing pump
• Labs ordered by physician based on clinical response. Lab frequency typically decreases as patient becomes less acute.
• First dosing in the home not desirable due to frequent laboratory monitoring required with initiation of TPN

 

 

Indications/Candidates for TPN

• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Massive Bowel Resection
• Intestinal Obstruction
• Short Bowel Syndrome
• Motility Disorders
• Crohn's Disease
• Ulcerative Colitis
• Enteritis
• Mesenteric Infarction
• Hirschprung's Disease
• Malabsorption Disorders