Introduction: The limited data regarding nutrition characteristics and the delivery of critically ill patients in South Asia is intriguing. This study was conducted to investigate relation 28-day mortality mechanically ventilated patients. Methods: prospective observational intensive care unit (ICU) Maldives government referral hospital. Data about were collected from ICU charts, each patient f...

At the 2019 Food & Nutrition Conference Expo™, Academy hosted then-Surgeon General of United States, Jerome M. Adams, MD, MPH. Dr. Adams spoke at a session and met with attendees as well Academy’s Board Directors (as seen in photo on this page) – meeting I was honored to attend. Adams’ visit facilitated by group dedicated staff people including member Dennis Anderson-Villaluz, MBA, RD, LDN, FAN...

BACKGROUND Obesity is one of the most common public health problems in the industrialized world as a cause of noncommunicable diseases. Although primarily used for one-on-one communication, email is available for uninterrupted support for weight loss, but little is known about the effects of dietitian group counseling for weight control via the Internet. OBJECTIVE We developed a Web-based sel...

Nutritional care is an integral component of quality cancer treatment. Patients undergoing cancer therapy are at risk for developing a variety of side effects that impact their intake, absorption, and nutritional status. The issue becomes compounded in newly diagnosed patients who have preexisting poor nutritional status, comorbid diseases, mechanical obstruction, and metabolic abnormalities. S...

This book is a very practical one written by a dietitian of the Hammersmith Hospital. The diets, recipes and tables which occupy most of the book will be found useful by all concerned with the care of the sick. The caloric value of nearly every diet has been given, which undoubtedly increases the practical utility of the book. Numerous diets, such as Sippy, gastrostomy, typhoid, ketogenic, vari...

In this article, we introduce ADMAN an alarm-based diabetes management system for the disposal of Mobile Geriatric Teams MGT. The system aims at providing a form of remote monitoring in order to control the diabetes rate for elder patients. The system is multidimensional in a way that it resides at the patient mobile machine from a side, the doctor’s mobile machine from another side and can be ...

Background Reduced need for insulin therapy in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) has been documented in a study validating American Nutrition Practice Guidelines, which recommend at least 3 dietitian visits. No Australian GDM Nutrition Practice Guidelines exist and systematic delivery of dietetic care to women with GDM does not occur in Australia. This paper evaluates a theory-informed implem...

there are no adequate data that evaluate the safety and effectiveness of lowering triglyceride levels in infants. the authors report a neonate affected by familial hyperchylomicronemia, while being investigated for sepsis the serum sample obtained for blood counts was discovered to be lipaemic and the case was subsequently investigated for dyslipidemia. based on this very abnormal lipid profile...

Nutrition assessment is an essential component of the Nutrition Care Process and Model (NCPM), as it is the initial step in developing a comprehensive evaluation of the client’s nutrition history. A comprehensive nutrition assessment requires the ability to observe, interpret, analyze, and infer data to diagnose nutrition problems. This practice paper provides insight into the process by which ...