Nutritional support in critical illness and recovery
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Nutritional support in critical illness.
Critically ill patients, almost by definition, are catabolic and often hypermetabolic. Although it is generally accepted that such patients would benefit from nutritional support, there are remarkably little data to support this premise. Several experts believe that prospective, randomized, controlled studies to document the efficacy of nutrition support in improving outcome in critically ill p...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2213-8587
DOI: 10.1016/s2213-8587(15)00222-3