Parenteral nutrition, or intravenous feeding, is the feeding of nutritional products to a person intravenously, bypassing the usual process of eating and digestion. The person receives a nutritional mix including glucose, salts, amino acids, lipids, vitamins and dietary minerals, and it is called total parenteral nutrition when no significant nutrition is obtained by other routes.
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Parenteral nutrition (PN), or intravenous feeding, is the feeding of nutritional products to a person intravenously, bypassing the usual process of eating and digestion.
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The first safe fat emulsion, Intralipid, developed by Prof. Arvid Wretlind of the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, was made available for clinical use in 1962.
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