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ASPEN (American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition) fosters a community of professionals representing all disciplines and areas of interest in nutrition support therapy.

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Clinical Guidelines:

  1. 2010 Nutrition Support of Hospitalized Pediatric Patients with Obesity
  2. 2009 Nutrition Support of Children with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
  3. 2009 Clinical Guidelines Introduction
  4. 2009 Nutrition Support Therapy During Adult Anticancer Treatment and in Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
  5. 2009 Pediatric Critical Care
  6. 2009 Adult Critical Care – In collaboration with the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
    1. Preliminary Remarks and Introduction
    2. Section A – Initiate Enteral Feeding
    3. Section B – When to Use Parenteral Nutrition
    4. Section C – Dosing of Enteral Feeding
    5. Section D – Monitoring Tolerance and Adequacy of Enteral Nutrition
    6. Section E – Selection of Appropriate Enteral Formulation
    7. Section F – Adjunctive Therapy
    8. Section G – When Indicated, Maximize Efficacy of Parenteral Nutrition
    9. Section H – Pulmonary Failure
    10. Section I – Renal Failure
    11. Section J – Hepatic Failure
    12. Section K – Acute Pancreatitis
    13. Section L – Nutrition Therapy in End-of-Life Situations
  7. 2009 Enteral Nutrition Practice Recommendations
  8. 2004 Safe Practices for Parenteral Nutrition

Standards:

  1. 2008 Nutrition Support Pharmacist Standards
  2. 2007 Nutrition Support Nurse Standards
  3. 2007 Nutrition Support Dietitian Standards
  4. 2006 Long Term Care Standards
  5. 2005 Home Care Standards
  6. 2005 Hospital Patient (Peds) Standards
  7. 2003 Nutrition Support Physician Standards
  8. 2002 Hospital Patient (Adult) Standards

Position Papers:

  1. 2008 Statement on Ethics of Withholding and/or Withdrawing Nutrition Support Therapy. (PDF)
  2. 2007 Statement on Parenteral Nutrition Standardization
  3. 2004 Statement on Aluminum in Parenteral Nutrition

A.S.P.E.N. Endorsed Documents

  1. Adult Starvation and Disease-Related Malnutrition: A Proposal for Etiology-Based Diagnosis in the Clinical Practice Setting From the International Consensus Guideline Committee
  2. AACE/TOS/ASMBS Medical Guidelines for Clinical Practice for the Perioperative Nutritional, Metabolic, and Nonsurgical Support of the Bariatric Patient