[Postoperative parenteral feeding with a complete solution]. / Postoperative parenterale Ernährung mit einer Komplettlösung.

Post-aggression metabolism leads even after moderately severe surgical interventions to postoperative catabolic derangement if there is inadequate replacement of carbohydrates, amino-acids and electrolytes. An investigation was carried out in 12 patients to see whether, and to what degree, the parenteral administration of a solution for total parenteral nutrition helped to bridge the postoperative nutrient deficiency. It is shown that with this form of nutrition and a complication-free postoperative course there was no imbalance of the nutritive metabolism.