For hospital patients who are too sick to eat, our service provides comprehensive tube feeding approached to ensure appropriate nutrition during hospitalization, as well as intravenous nutrition when needed. (www2.vet.cornell.edu)
Seven infants responded promptly with cessation of weight loss and diarrhoea; in four others, human milk was used to re-establish oral nutrition after a period of intravenous nutrition when all other measures had failed. (citeulike.org)
Medical care has improved radically since the invention of the incubator, with milestones including intravenous nutrition, positive pressure ventilation, and surfactant replacement therapy. (journals.plos.org)