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Treatment Protocol Benefits
Sustagen® Hospital Formula can be relevant to various areas of nutritional assement
and treatment protocols.
| Nutritional Assesment & Treatment Area | Benefit of Sustagen® |
| Recent decline in food intake | Help with increasing nutritional density of oral intake when used to fortify food or as an oral supplement |
| Weight loss | Help promote sufficient caloric intake at 1.0 kcal/ml to achieve weight gain. |
| Mobility | Provides sufficient caloric intake to prevent muscle protein from being used as an energy source. Provides 13.8g of protein per serve for tissue repair and replacement and maintenance of lean muscle mass. Provides 1.0 kcal/ml energy for improved physical functioning and better compliance with rehabilitation regimes. |
| Morbidity | Low GI suitable for diabetes patients and low sodium for those with cardiovascular or arterial health concerns. |
Benefits of Sustagen®
Sustagen® Hospital Formula can be used as prophylactic nutritional intervention.
Sustagen® Hospital formula can help create better patient outcomes by assisting with:
- better compliance with nutritional focus of care regime
- providing nutritional supplementation for those with protein-energy malnutrition
- improving healing and repair of body tissues
- providing caloric and nutritional intake to prevent weight loss
- helping stabilize or reverse treatment side effects causing loss of appetite leading to debility
- minimising nutritional complications associated with disease progression
- reducing length of stay in hospital and assisting patients' complete rehabilitation
- providing HCP consulting and support materials
- provide continuity of care after discharge from hospital and helping prevent re-admission