TPN Site Care: How to Reduce the Risk of Infection

Unless you are a medical professional trained in the methods for proper catheter placement and catheter maintenance to reduce the risk of infections in patients receiving total parenteral nutrition, you may not know that, as of 1996, there was no standard protocol to ensure that a patient would not get an infection at the tpn site. A good resource to use in assisting the healthcare professional or the nurse responsible for attending patients receiving TPN is the information that can be gained through articles written by experts in the field of healthcare.

Through the Internet, a healthcare professional can find lots of good information and tips on proper TPN site care, which is so critical in postoperative procedures for patients receiving total parenteral nutrition. In searching the major search engines for "TPN site care," articles of interest for this subject came up in publications such as JPEN: Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nuitrition, where experts give opinions and advice on TPN and the best procedures to utilize in caring for patients before and after the postoperative period.

I suggest the use of both the articles written by experts in the field of TPN patient care and JPEN to perfect the care that is so necessary to patients suffering from malnutrition that can be found in these two sources on the topic of TPN site care.