8/26/2026· Nutrition
Nutrition Support in Catastrophic Injury Life Care Plans: What the Clinical Criteria Require
By: Dr. Kent Sasse
In catastrophic abdominal injury cases, few line items move a damages figure like nutrition support. Home parenteral nutrition - intravenous feeding delivered through a central catheter - runs somewhere in the range of $103,000 to $176,000 per year for an adult in the United States. Projected across a young plaintiff’s life expectancy, that single entry can account for the majority of a life care plan's total value.
