TPN and Acute Pancreatitis

Learning Assessment
Questions: Answers
1. False it is difficult to meet nutritional
requirements with jejunal feeding, and only distal
jejunal feeding avoids pancreatic stimulation
2. False although this statement may be correct,
no controlled studies have been conducted to
prove it
3. True patients with acute pancreatitis have both
exocrine and endocrine damage, leading to a
relative insulin deficiency