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Review: timing or administration route of nutritional support does not affect death or disability in head injury

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn.10.3.82

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    Perel P, Yanagawa T, Bunn F, et al. Nutritional support for head-injured patients. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2006;(4):CD001530.OpenUrlPubMed

    Q In patients with head injury, does timing or route of nutritional support affect morbidity and mortality?

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    Cochrane Injuries Group specialised register, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Medline, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Web of Science, CAB Abstracts, CINAHL, National Research Register, ZETOC, and reference lists of identified studies and reviews.

    Embedded ImageStudy selection and assessment:

    randomised controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating timing (early v delayed) or administration routes (parenteral v enteral or gastric v jejunal enteral) of nutritional support in patients with acute traumatic brain injury of any severity. 11 …

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    Footnotes

    • For correspondence: Dr P Perel, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. pablo.perel{at}lshtm.ac.uk

    • Source of funding: not stated.