What Is Intravenous Feeding?
Intravenous feeding, also called parenteral nutrition, delivers food to the body through the veins. This puts nutrition directly into the bloodstream, avoiding the digestion processes. Patients may require intravenous feeding if their digestive system is unable to pass or absorb food. This is can be the result of trauma, surgery, damage to the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, disorders that render the bowels non-functioning, a coma, or short gut syndrome.
