The following is the example for
total parenteral nutrition:
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Parenteral nutrition (PN) is the feeding of nutritional products to a person intravenously,[citation needed] bypassing the usual process of eating and digestion. The products are made by pharmaceutical compounding companies[citation needed] . The person receives a nutritional formulae[citation needed] that contain nutrients including glucose, salts, amino acids, lipids and added vitamins and dietary minerals[citation needed] . It is called total parenteral nutrition (TPN) or total nutrient admixture (TNA) when no significant nutrition is obtained by other routes, and partial parenteral nutrition (PPN) when nutrition is also partially enteric. It is be called peripheral parenteral nutrition (PPN)[citation needed] when administered through vein access in a limb rather than through a central vein as central venous nutrition (CVN).
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For energy only, intravenous sugar solutions with dextrose or glucose are generally used.