Clinical management in nutrition units

Announcement of “4th International Clinical Nutrition Congress” in Mashhad, Iran

This article has no abstract. DOI: 10.18502/jfqhc.8.4.8254

Clinical trials in nutrition.

Trials of nutritional intervention in a wide range of health and disease states, preventive and therapeutic, are required. Not only has the emergence of chronic non-communicable disease (CNCD) with acknowledged nutritional pathogenesis created this imperative need, but so also have other conditions which, previously, had not been regarded as nutritionally based. Among the latter are health prob...

Nutrition management in the ICU.

Nutrition support plays an important role in the management of nutritional deficiencies in properly selected critically ill patients. A full nutritional assessment allows the calculation of appropriate feeding goals. The route of feeding, enteral or parenteral, is determined by the presence or absence of a functioning intestine and hemodynamic status of the patient. The specific roles of carboh...

Enteral nutrition in clinical practice.

Enteral nutrition has, at long last, found its place in the modulation of disease. Because of its importance in terms of both anabolic and catabolic processes, today's clinician must have a working knowledge of the types of enteral formulations, their delivery and the therapeutic considerations (particularly concomitant medications) that impact on the safety and efficacy of enteral nutrition. T...

Protein nutrition in clinical practice.