Nutritional Support in the Intensive Care Unit
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Nutritional support of children in the intensive care unit.
Nutritional support is an integral and essential part of the management of 5-10 percent of hospitalized children. Children in the intensive care unit are particularly likely to develop malnutrition because of the nature and duration of their illness, and their inability to eat by mouth. This article reviews the physiology of starvation and the development of malnutrition in children. A method o...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1538-8646,0730-4625
DOI: 10.1097/dcc.0000000000000448