Update of Enteral Nutrition

Dear Colleagues,

Enteral nutrition aims to feed, through a functioning digestive tract, people with swallowing difficulties or total oral disability. In this way, it is possible to maintain or improve the nutritional status of patients in a situation of malnutrition, both in hospital and in their homes.

It is the most frequent form of artificial nutrition and mainly affects patients with neurological and oncological diseases who need it for long periods of time, even for their lifetime. Even if, apparently, this nutritional treatment has remained unchanged for the last years, in fact, it has been undergoing changes regarding the enteral feeding devices, ingredients used, innovative practices, safe administration, and reimbursement policies.

We invite you to submit articles on enteral nutrition that meet the goals of this Special Issue.

The aim of this Special Issue titled "Update of Enteral Nutrition" is to publish selected articles that deepen our knowledge of specific and innovative aspects of enteral nutrition. In particular, it will include articles (revisions and clinical or experimental studies) on the role of specific nutrients and non-nutritional substances used in enteral nutrition, features of enteral nutrition that can be studied only after its administration to patients, administration methods, trends in the composition of enteral nutrition, effects or complications of enteral nutrition, and other aspects that directly or indirectly advance our understanding of enteral nutrition.

Prof. Dr. Carmina Wanden Berghe
Prof. Dr. Javier Sanz Valero
Prof. Dr. M Dolores Ruiz López
Guest Editors

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