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Chapter 10 - Nutrition

from Section I: - Specific features of critical care medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2010

Edited by
Edited in association with
Fang Gao Smith
Affiliation:
University of Warwick
Joyce Yeung
Affiliation:
West Midlands Deanery
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Critically ill patients are at high risk of malnutrition, due to the nature of their illness and hypermetabolic catabolic state. This chapter presents an assessment of the nutritional status and nutritional requirements by calculating resting energy expenditure for caloric requirements, calculating protein requirements, calculating non-protein (carbohydrates and lipids) components, and by calculating micronutrients including vitamins, electrolytes and trace elements. Nutritional support can be given through one of two routes: enteral feeding (EF) (via the gastrointestinal tract) or parenteral feeding (PN), intravenous (via either peripheral or central vein). Pharmaco/immunonutrition is a relatively new concept in critical care feeding. Some ICUs now have protocols for the use of immunonutrition feeds. The chapter discusses the different complications of nutritional support such as refeeding syndrome, overfeeding, hyperglycaemia, electrolyte imbalances and micronutrient deficiency, and different complications of enteral nutrition, and parenteral nutrition.
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Print publication year: 2010

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  • Nutrition
  • Edited by Fang Gao Smith, University of Warwick
  • Edited in association with Joyce Yeung
  • Book: Core Topics in Critical Care Medicine
  • Online publication: 06 July 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511712289.012
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  • Nutrition
  • Edited by Fang Gao Smith, University of Warwick
  • Edited in association with Joyce Yeung
  • Book: Core Topics in Critical Care Medicine
  • Online publication: 06 July 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511712289.012
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  • Nutrition
  • Edited by Fang Gao Smith, University of Warwick
  • Edited in association with Joyce Yeung
  • Book: Core Topics in Critical Care Medicine
  • Online publication: 06 July 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511712289.012
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