Pulmonary candidiasis is a rare condition that usually occurs in severely ill patients with underlying immunosuppression. The clinical diagnosis is very rarely confirmed in vivo by lung biopsy.' Total parenteral nutrition is an increasingly common technique for the management ofpatients with intestinal failure. Catheter related sepsis occurs in 2-11% of patients treated by total parenteral nutr...

V. DIABETES CARE, p. S8 A. Initial evaluation B. Management C. Glycemic control 1. Assessment of glycemic control a. Self-monitoring of blood glucose b. A1C 2. Glycemic goals 3. Approach to treatment D. Medical nutrition therapy E. Diabetes self-management education F. Physical activity G. Psychosocial assessment and care H. Referral for diabetes management I. Intercurrent illness J. Hypoglycem...

We describe the characteristics of patients attending an Australian tertiary multidisciplinary pain service and identify areas for nutrition interventions. This cross-sectional study targets patients experiencing chronic pain who attended the service between June-December 2014. Self-reported data was captured from: (1) an Electronic Persistent Pain Outcomes Collaboration (ePPOC) referral questi...

Patients who are unable to use their gastrointestinal system for feeding purposes are now usually started on parenteral nutrition. It is a therapeutic tool used in the clinical management of patients requiring special nutritional care both in the hospital, and at home (home parenteral nutrition). The idea of providing nutrients intravenously in humans was first realised when Sir Christopher Wre...

INTRODUCTION Nutrition is a key priority for the management of lifestyle-related chronic disease, and the demand on general practitioners (GPs) to provide nutrition care is increasing. AIM The aim of this systematic review was to investigate the effectiveness of nutrition care provided by GPs in improving the nutrition-related behaviour and subsequent health outcomes of individuals with lifes...

Animal nutrition and feeding, along with other sciences (reproduction, genetics, hygiene, management, etc [...]

Nutrition therapy is essential for the management of critically ill patients. Some guidelines have been published to standardize and optimize the nutrition therapy. However, there are still many controversies in nutrition practice and there is a gap between guidelines and clinical nutrition therapy for patients in intensive care units (ICUs). This study aimed to assess attitudes and beliefs tow...

intrbackground and objectives: good medical nutrition therapy (mnt) is crucial to inpatients' health and treatment, and is part of routine hospital cares. surgery ward is a highly danger-prone section in any hospital. the present study was conducted for a proactive risk analysis of nutrition and food distribution in mashhad qaem hospital’ women’s surgery ward in 2013 through health care fa...

In this paper we briefly review some of our recent work on the nutritional aspects of leprosy, and also draw attention to related contributions of other sci· entists in India and abroad. Foster et a/4 had recently reviewed the available literature. on nutrition-Iepro~y inter-relationship (145 references). Despite much suggestive evidence of the supportive contributory role of good nutrition tow...