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Review
. 2019 Jan:74 Suppl 1:27-35.
doi: 10.1111/anae.14506.

Pre-operative nutrition and the elective surgical patient: why, how and what?

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Pre-operative nutrition and the elective surgical patient: why, how and what?

C Gillis et al. Anaesthesia. 2019 Jan.
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Abstract

Pre-operative nutrition therapy is increasingly recognised as an essential component of surgical care. The present review has been formatted using Simon Sinek's Golden Circle approach to explain 'why' avoiding pre-operative malnutrition and supporting protein anabolism are important goals for the elective surgical patient, 'how' peri-operative malnutrition develops leading in part to a requirement for pre-operative anabolic preparation, and 'what' can be done to avoid pre-operative malnutrition and support anabolism for optimal recovery.

Keywords: nutrition prehabilitation; peri-operative nutrition; pre-surgery optimisation.

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