ASPEN clinical guidelines are scientific, systematically developed, evidence-based, evidence-informed documents that provide practice recommendations to guide practitioner and patient decisions about nutrition and nutrition care practice. According to the best available evidence, in the absence of evidence, guidelines systematically outline the opinions of a large collection of experienced clinicians for the purposes of unifying nutrition and nutrition care and coordinating future research efforts.
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Clinical Guideline Projects
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Guideline Protocol: ASPEN Nutrition Guidelines for Beyond-Use Dating and Hang Time of Parenteral Nutrition
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04.2025
Topics Include:
Parenteral nutrition, Administration
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Guideline Protocol: ASPEN International Guidelines for Adult Perioperative Cardiac Patients – Updated
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04.2025
Topics Include:
Surgery, Nutrition Support, Adults, Cardiac disease
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Guideline Protocol: ASPEN Nutrition Guidelines for Replacement of a Balloon Gastrostomy Tube in Infants and Pediatric Patients
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08.2024
Topics Include:
Pediatrics, Enteral access
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Guideline Protocol: Nutrition Support in Head and Neck Cancer
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Topics Include:
Oncology, Nutrition Support, Adults
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Guideline Protocol: Nutrition Support in Pediatric Critically Ill Patients
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Topics Include:
Critical care, Nutrition Support, Pediatrics
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