Nutrition in intensive care
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Nutrition in intensive care
Nutritional support has now come to be recognized as sine qua non in management of critically ill.[1] It has gained importance with better understanding of the pathophysiology of protein energy malnutrition (PEM) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients and optimal modalities in administration of nutritional therapy.[2,3] Its status has changed from being adjunct in critical care to that of defini...
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Systematic undernutrition of intensive care unit patients is common and neglected. Is this inevitable or can better routines and protocols make a difference? The necessity of feeding may be regarded as self-evident, but more evidence is obviously needed to strengthen this issue. In rich countries it should be a human right not to be hungry.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0970-9185
DOI: 10.4103/0970-9185.92401