Nutrition management of a trauma patient with pneumatosis intestinalis

Abstract

A 34-year-old man was admitted to the trauma unit after being involved in a motor vehicle accident, when the truck that he was driving overturned and entrapped him. Upon admission, the patient presented with blunt abdominal and chest trauma, a head injury and bilateral haemopneumothoraces. He was subsequently intubated and ventilated. The patient went into septic shock and required inotropic support.