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These kind of patients need parenteral nutrition:

  1. Patient in a coma with pre-existing malnutrition
  2. Preterm infants and children who are not fit for enteral nutrition
  3. Patients with a systemic inflammatory response after a major trauma
  4. Patients with a compromised gastrointestinal tract such as those with a gastrointestinal disease
  5. Patients who are transiting to enteral nutrition
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