PURPOSE The provision of early enteral (gut) nutrition to critically ill patients, started within 24 hours of injury or intensive care unit admission, is accepted to improve health outcomes. However, not all patients are able to receive early enteral nutrition. The purpose of the economic analysis presented here was to estimate the cost implications of providing early parenteral (intravenous) n...

Many hospitalized patients with cancer are malnourished. Some become critically ill and experience delayed wound healing, loss of muscle strength, and reduced infection fighting ability as a consequence of the loss of nutritional reserves. Complications of critical illness may cause interruption in normal gastrointestinal function and result in shock, sepsis, hypochlorhydria, systemic inflammat...

Faber P, Siervo M: Nutrition in Critical Care. New York: Cambridge University Press; 2014, 250pp, ISBN: 978-1107-99901-7. This interesting book represents a real challenge, giving the opportunity for various physicians to prescribe the most appropriate nutritional support in critically ill patients. The participation of 44 experts from a wide range of medical and paramedical subspecialities (ph...

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...

OBJECTIVE To determine what, how, for whom, why, and in what circumstances educational interventions improve the delivery of nutrition care by doctors and other healthcare professionals work. DESIGN Realist synthesis following a published protocol and reported following Realist and Meta-narrative Evidence Synthesis: Evolving Standards (RAMESES) guidelines. A multidisciplinary team searched ME...

Malnutrition is common in critically ill patients and is associated with poor outcomes for patients and increased health care spending. Enteral nutrition is the method of choice for nutrition delivery. Enteral nutrition delivery practices vary widely, and underfeeding is widespread in critical care. Interruptions in enteral nutrition due to performance of procedures, positioning, technical issu...

BACKGROUND To address the public health crisis of overweight and obese preschool-age children, the Nutrition And Physical Activity Self Assessment for Child Care (NAP SACC) intervention was delivered by nurse child care health consultants with the objective of improving child care provider and parent nutrition and physical activity knowledge, center-level nutrition and physical activity policie...

phytic acid is a major storage form of phosphorous in cereals that acts as food inhibitor by chelating micronutrients and prevents it to be bioavailabe for monogastric animals, including humans. ninety three wheat (triticum aestivum l.) germplasms, including cultivars from india, were characterized for phytic acid and fe contents. phytic acid contents ranged from 0.59 (iitr 92) to 2.08% (iitr 2...

The growing older adult population and its higher incidence of diabetes are creating demands on health care providers to address the special needs of these patients. Because nutrition is essential to the proper treatment and self-management of diabetes, clinicians must develop and adopt various strategies to address some of the common nutritional, lifestyle, and self-management barriers that ol...