Imports Of Injectable Nutrition Drugs Announced By FDA
The FDA has just announced that it will allow emergency imports of injectable drugs used in total parenteral nutrition (TPN), due to a serious shortage throughout the USA. TPN is for patients who cannot get their nutrition by eating. It involves using a drip with a needle or catheter placed in the vein containing food solution as well as several drugs, such as trace elements, potassium phosphate, and sodium phosphate... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 31, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals Source Type: news
FDA OKs Import of IV Nutrition Products
(MedPage Today) -- SILVER SPRING, Md. -- In an effort to relieve a shortage of key components of total parenteral nutrition products, the FDA said it would allow emergency imports by Fresenius Kabi. (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - May 30, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Injectable Nutrition Drugs Will Be Imported to Ease ShortageInjectable Nutrition Drugs Will Be Imported to Ease Shortage
The FDA is allowing the importation of drugs used in total parenteral nutrition for premature infants and other patients. FDA Approvals (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - May 30, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics News Alert Source Type: news
U.S. Imports Scarce Nutrition Drugs for Sick Babies
Ingredients for intravenous feeding in short supply after company closure, FDA says (Source: The Doctors Lounge - Oncology)
Source: The Doctors Lounge - Oncology - May 29, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: webmaster at doctorslounge.com Tags: Oncology, Pediatrics, Pharmacy, News, Source Type: news
FDA announces import of injectable nutrition drugs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that injectable drugs used in total parenteral nutrition (TPN) in critical shortage will be imported into the United States and available to patients this week. (Source: Food and Drug Administration)
Source: Food and Drug Administration - May 29, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Intravenous Nutrition Within 24 Hours Doesn’t Improve Survival
(Ivanhoe Newswire) – Gordon S. Doig, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Sydney, Australia, have discovered that the early provision of intravenous nutrition among critically ill patients with contraindications to early use of enteral nutrition (like through a feeding tube) did not result in significant differences in day-60 mortality or shorter ICU stay, compared with standard treatment. (Source: Medical Headlines From Ivanhoe.com)
Source: Medical Headlines From Ivanhoe.com - May 24, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Parenteral Nutrition and Infection Reduction in the ICUParenteral Nutrition and Infection Reduction in the ICU
A provocative new study suggests that complementing enteral nutrition with parenteral nutrition may reduce ICU stays in critically ill patients. Medscape Critical Care (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - May 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Critical Care Viewpoint Source Type: news
Providing Intravenous Nutrition Within 24 Hours For Certain Critically Ill Patients Does Not Appear To Improve Survival Or Reduce ICU Length Of Stay
The early (within 24 hours of intensive care unit [ICU] admission) provision of intravenous nutrition among critically ill patients with contraindications (a condition that makes a particular procedure potentially inadvisable) to early use of enteral nutrition (such as through a feeding tube) did not result in significant differences in 60 day mortality or shorter ICU or hospital length of stay, compared with standard care, according to a study in the May 22/29 issue of JAMA... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 20, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology Source Type: news
Value of Early Parenteral Nutrition in ICU Patients QuestionableValue of Early Parenteral Nutrition in ICU Patients Questionable
Providing early parenteral nutrition to critically ill patients who would not otherwise receive nutrition therapy due to short-term contraindications to enteral nutrition did not improve survival in a randomized controlled trial. Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - May 20, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Critical Care News Source Type: news
The Management of Long-term Parenteral NutritionThe Management of Long-term Parenteral Nutrition
How do clinicians determine which patients need to go on long-term parenteral nutrition, what is the best way to manage them, and what types of problems might present in the course of this treatment? Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - March 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Gastroenterology Journal Article Source Type: news
What Causes Hypercalcemia?
Discussion
Calcium homeostasis is regulated by mechanisms involving the absorption from the gastrointestinal tract, bone deposition and resorption, and renal excretion. To review Vitamin D homeostasis click here.
Serum calcium is found in three forms: free (47%), protein bound (43%) and diffusable calcium complexes (10%). The protein binding proteins are albumin (80%) and globulin (20%). The free calcium is the most important biologically. Acidosis also increases free calcium and alkalosis decreases free calcium.
Problems associated with hypercalcemia include nausea, emesis, abdominal pain, constipation, polyuria, dehydra...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - March 25, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Donna M. D'Alessandro, M.D. Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Retrospective study: Early parenteral nutrition linked to higher death in critically ill children
Source: Reuters Health
Area: News
According to a report in Reuters Health, a retrospective study of 2,069 patients aged one month to 18 years (mean age 5.3 years) who were admitted to a PICU and who received early parenteral nutrition (defined as 25% of goal calories delivered within the first 48 hours of admission) were associated with higher mortality. After adjustment for Paediatric Index of Mortality (PIM)-2 score and centre, children who received early parenteral nutrition were about twice as likely to die as those who did not (odds ratio 2.11, p=0.0002).
Also, median length of stay was significantly longer for t...
Source: NeLM - News - February 15, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Home Nutrition Support Team Interventions Prevent Hospitalizations, Reduce Costs For Clinical Nutrition Patients
Walgreens Study Reinforces Importance of Proactive Clinical Nutrition Interventions Home nutrition support team interventions improved patient care and potentially prevented more than 429 hospital days over a three-month period, according to new data presented by Walgreens Infusion Services at the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) Clinical Nutrition Week meeting this weekend in Phoenix. The cost savings of these interventions were estimated at more than $850,000... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 8, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Nutrition / Diet Source Type: news
Improving practice and reducing the risks of using parenteral nutrition for children
We welcome this report which will help practitioners from all professions improve practice and reduce the risks in the provision of Parenteral Nutrition (PN) for children and neonates.
As Anthony Sinclair, Chairman Paediatric Chief Pharmacists Group says in his forward “Parent (Source: Royal Pharmaceutical Society News)
Source: Royal Pharmaceutical Society News - December 15, 2011 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Gastroenterology: Images in Clinical Medicine
Editor: V. Dimov, M.D., Assistant Professor at University of ChicagoGrey Turner ' s sign suggesting retroperitoneal haemorrhage. Lancet, 05/2014.Abdominal-Wall Varices in the Budd –Chiari Syndrome. NEJM, 05/2014.Biliary ileus. Lancet, 07/2012.Meconium-like Ileus in Cystic Fibrosis. NEJM, 05/2012.Achalasia. NEJM, 04/2012.Intestinal Infestation with Ancylostoma ceylanicum. NEJM, 03/2012.Kayser-Fleischer Rings in Wilson ' s Disease. NEJM, 03/2012.Barium Aspiration. NEJM, 03/2012.Pneumopericardium Associated with a Peptic Ulcer. NEJM, 12/2011.Abdominal calcifications secondary to cysticercosis. Lancet, 12/2011.Retinopat...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - August 22, 2009 Category: General Medicine Tags: Gastroenterology Images Source Type: news
