Nutrition support is an important part of care management in critically ill patients, not only to prevent and treat malnutrition but also it has a significant impact on recovery from illness and overall outcome. There is little information available about present nutritional support practice for patients in intensive care units (ICU) in the UK. This survey was designed to evaluate the present n...

OBJECTIVE Gastroschisis is a defect of the abdominal wall, resulting in congenital evisceration and requiring neonatal intensive care, early surgical correction, and parenteral nutrition. This study evaluated newborns with gastroschisis, seeking to associate nutritional characteristics with time of hospital stay. METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study of 49 newborns undergoing primary ...

Patients undergoing neoadjuvant therapy for esophageal cancer are at a high risk for malnutrition due to the effects of chemoradiation, dysphagia, and malignancy induced cachexia. Preparation for esophagectomy requires careful assessment of nutritional risk and adequate supplementation as indicated. Supplementation via the enteral route is preferred to the parenteral route but requires feeding ...

Intervention Patients were assigned to receive intensive (n=765) or conventional (n=783) insulin treatment. Intensive treatment was insulin infusion that was started if the blood glucose concentration was > 6.1 mmol/l, and was adjusted to maintain a blood glucose concentration of 4.4–6.1 mmol/l (maximum insulin dose 50 IU/h). Conventional treatment was continuous insulin infusion by a pump that...

 Aquire knowledge on basic concepts of parenteral nutrition (PN) in infants, children and adolescents;  Define indications for and contraindications to PN in paediatric patients;  Recognize specific ethical issues of PN in infants, children and adolescents;  Understand parenteral feeding requirements, including water, energy, amino acids, glucose, lipids, minerals, trace elements, and vitam...

OBJECTIVE To report on acquired experience of metabolic support for children with acute neurological diseases, emphasizing enteral tube feeding usage and metabolic assessment, and also to recommend policies aimed towards improving its implementation. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. SETTING Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of Hospital do Servidor Público Estadual de São Paulo. SUBJECTS 44 pati...

Objective To investigate the serum vitamin D level and its determinant factors in stroke patients. Methods Fifty-one stroke patients who had documented serum level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D(25(OH)D) were included. Patients were divided into subacute (n=23) and chronic groups (n=28). The mean levels of 25(OH)D of the two groups were compared. Correlations between each 25(OH)D level and post-strok...

The benefits and risks of nutritional therapies in the prevention and management of infectious diseases in the developed world are reviewed. There is strong evidence that early enteral feeding of patients prevents infections in a variety of traumatic and surgical illnesses. There is, however, little support for similar early feeding in medical illnesses. Parenteral nutrition increases the risk ...

Background: one of the leading clinical problems for premature neonates especially with very low birth weight is the type and amount of feeding. The authors aimed to compare outcomes of slow versus rapid feeding in premature neonates hospitalized in Al-Zahra hospital, Rasht. Methods: This is a clinical trial that was conducted on 62 premature neonates aged less than 35 weeks of gestation who w...