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Review
. 2024 May;50(5):106742.
doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2022.10.002. Epub 2022 Oct 13.

ESPEN Guidelines on Clinical nutrition in surgery - Special issues to be revisited

Arved Weimann  1 , Maria Wobith  2
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Review

ESPEN Guidelines on Clinical nutrition in surgery - Special issues to be revisited

Arved Weimann et al. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2024 May.

Abstract

The ESPEN Guidelines on Clinical nutrition in Surgery from 2017 has been also available as practical guideline with algorithms since 2021 (www.espen.org). An update will be perfomed in the near future. This review focuses on recent data with regard to special issues and topics to be revisited in the guidelines: These are nutritional assessment, sarcopenic obesity, prehabilitation, oral/enteral immunonutrition, postoperative oral supplementation in hospital and after discharge.

Keywords: Clinical nutrition; ESPEN guidelines; Surgical oncology; Visceral surgery.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of competing interest Arved Weimann: Lecture fees: Baxter, B.Braun, Fresenius Kabi, Falk Foundation. Research grant: B. Braun, Mucos. Maria Wobith: Lecture fees: Fresenius Kabi. Research grant: B Braun.