Nutrition practice in burn injury requires a multifaceted approach aimed at providing metabolic support during a heightened inflammatory state, while accommodating surgical and medical needs of the patient. Nutritional assessment and determination of nutrient requirements is challenging, particularly given the metabolic disarray that frequently accompanies inflammation. Nutritional therapy requ...

BACKGROUND Inadequate nutrition support is common among critically ill patients, and identification of risk factors for such inadequacy might help in improving nutrition support. OBJECTIVE To determine how often daily calorie goals are met and the factors responsible for inadequate nutrition support. Methods A single-center prospective cohort study. Each patient's demographic and clinical cha...

One of the important roles of pharmacists as members of a nutrition support team is nutritional prescription support. We developed a nutritional prescription support system (NPSS) that facilitates prescription support and analysis and evaluated its usefulness in nutritional therapy. An NPSS for prescription support and the management of patient information was created. With this NPSS, the nutri...

BACKGROUND Using the Internet may prove useful in providing nutrition counselling and social support for patients with chronic diseases. OBJECTIVE We evaluated the impact of Web-based nutrition counselling and social support on social support measures, anthropometry, blood pressure, and serum cholesterol in patients at increased cardiovascular risk. METHODS We conducted a randomized control...

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 Establishing nutrition support is a priority in the management of the acutely unwell patient. Administration of proprofol by infusion is commonly used for sedation. This can significantly contribute to the total calorific input due to the lipid content. We investigated the total calorific input received in a cohort of patients in the first 7 days of nutrition support during their c...

Nutrition care and metabolic control contribute to clinical patient outcomes. Biomedical informatics applications represent a way to potentially improve quality and efficiency of nutrition management. We performed a systematic literature review to identify clinical decision support and computerized provider order entry systems used to manage nutrition care. Online research databases were search...