Considerations for the Management of Home Parenteral Nutrition during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: a position paper from the Home Artificial Nutrition and Chronic Intestinal Failure Special Interest Group of ESPEN

The management of patients with chronic intestinal failure requiring home parenteral nutrition has been and will continue to be impaired during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Multidisciplinary intestinal failure teams may have to adapt their clinical approaches to home care, outpatient care as well as hospital admission and discharge in order to keep this vulnerable group of patients as safe and well as possible during the unprecedented challenges that countries are facing during the pandemic. Equally, it is important that expert advice from intestinal failure teams is available when home parenteral nutrition (HPN)-dependent patients require admission with SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Source: Clinical Nutrition - May 26, 2020 Category: Nutrition Authors: Simon Lal, Andre Van Gossum, Francisca Joly, Federico Bozzetti, Cristina Cuerda, Georg Lamprecht, Manpreet S. Mundi, Michael Staun, Kinga Szczepanek, Geert Wanten, Carolyn Wheatley, Loris Pironi, the Home Artificial Nutrition & Chronic Intestinal Failure Tags: ESPEN Endorsed Recommendation Source Type: research