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ISRN Emergency Medicine
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 968023, 6 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/968023
Research Article

Challenges of Managing Emergency Ileostomy: Nutrition—A Neglected Aspect

Ravindra Singh Mohil,1 Nitisha Narayan,1 S. Sreenivas,1 Namrata Singh,2 Abhinav Bansal,1 and Gulshan Jit Singh1

1Department of Surgery, Safdarjang Hospital, Dr. V. M. Medical College, New Delhi 110023, India
2Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition, AIIMS, New Delhi 110029, India

Received 1 October 2012; Accepted 1 November 2012

Academic Editors: C. C. Chang, E. De Guise, and S. Di Saverio

Copyright © 2012 Ravindra Singh Mohil et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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