Question

Abdominal exams are particularly important in patients requiring nutrition support. Why?

Answer 1

Patients on nutrition support,means they need extra nutrition from outside for their body,it can be occur because of any disease condition in which body do not performing its functions properly,like digestion metabolism etc,and which leads to some nutritional deficiency in patient,so abdominal examination is very important in those patients,to assess subcutaneous fat over body,bowel and bladder elimination,proper bowel sound,by abdominal examination we can evaluate benefit of outside feed,and according to taht diet modifications can be done,because out all organs which helps in digestion and metabolism most of them are in abdominal cavity so it becomes important to do abdominal examination of patient requiring nutritional support.