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Nutrition in critical illness: a current conundrum

2016-10-18

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Critically ill people are unable to eat. What’s the best way to feed them? Nutrition authorities have long recommended providing generous amounts of protein and calories to critically ill patients, either intravenously or through feeding tubes, in order to counteract the catabolic state associated with this condition. In practice, however, patients in modern intensive care units are substantially underfed. Several...

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DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.9278.1

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