Journal of Surgery Concepts & Practice ›› 2023, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (01): 49-52.doi: 10.16139/j.1007-9610.2023.01.08

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Nutritional therapy recommendations for patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Ruijin Hospital (2023 edition)

SHI Yongmeia, JIANG Yongmeia, LUO Xia, JIN Qianwena, CHEN Erzhenb()   

  1. a. Departement of Clinical Nutrition, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
    b. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
  • Received:2022-01-09 Online:2023-01-25 Published:2023-03-25
  • Contact: CHEN Erzhen E-mail:chenerzhen@hotmail.com

Abstract:

Nutritional support is one of the comprehensive treatments for the patients with novel coronavirus infection, especially for critically ill patients. Nutritional therapy needs to follow the standard process, which includes nutritional risk screening, assessment, intervention and monitoring. Nutrition intervention is recommended to follow the principle of "five-step" of nutritional therapy. Appropriated diet and evidence-based nutritional support should be given to improve the nutritional status and immunologic function of the patients, and to get best of overall clinical outcomes.

Key words: Novel coronavirus, Novel coronavirus infection, Nutritional therapy, Enteral nutrition, Parenteral nutrition

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