Long-Term Total Parenteral Nutrition with Growth, Development, and Positive Nitrogen Balance

🤖 Plain-English Summary

This chapter is an experimental and follow-up clinical study showing that normal life could be sustained using parenteral means only. He became the first president and founder of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition.

🔑 Key Findings

• The experimental element involved six beagle puppies who were paired after weaning at eight weeks of age with control littermates.
• Then, at 12 weeks a vinyl catheter was inserted into an external jugular vein and threaded to the superior vena cava.
• The end was tunnelled to be brought out on the back between the scapulae and the puppies’ attached to a harness in a ‘metabolic’ cage.

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