hyperalimentation

Hyperalimentation may be necessary in certain cases to help maintain volume requirements and allow weight gain.

Hyperalimentation refers to a state where quantities of food consumed are greater than appropriate.

Toward that aim, the methods of providing hyperalimentation and oral feeds are both important.

Most patents seem to benefit from nutritional support with hyperalimentation irrespective of disease history.

In a broader sense, hyperalimentation includes excessive food administration through other means than eating, e.g. through parenteral nutrition.

Hyperalimentation can also cause an osmotic diuresis due to an increased load of urea from protein catabolism.

Check the level of ammonia in a person receiving high-calorie intravenous (IV) nutrition (hyperalimentation).

The Center's work with severely burned patients led it to develop a new, highly effective method of hyperalimentation which was quickly adapted in burn protocols world-wide.

Boulevard, was taken to the hospital, doctors used a device known as a hyperalimentation tube to feed him, and the tube was improperly put in place.

It was once called "total parenteral nutrition," "TPN," or "hyperalimentation."

Hyperalimentation fluids (i.e., total parenteral nutrition)

"Mrs. Thomas has been on hyperalimentation through an in-dwelling subclavian line for nearly two weeks and is still on intravenous antibiotics, hourly pulmonary therapy, and continuous oxygen."

Faced with a triple dose of rejection in less than two years, Karen finally sought treatment for her anorexia, eventually agreeing to hyperalimentation, an intravenous feeding procedure that alarmed her friends as a quick fix.

Wernicke's encephalopathy is the most frequently encountered manifestation of thiamine deficiency in Western society, though it may also occur in patients with impaired nutrition from other causes, such as gastrointestinal disease, those with HIV-AIDS, and with the injudicious administration of parenteral glucose or hyperalimentation without adequate B-vitamin supplementation.