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Nutrition Support in Burn Patients

Türk Yoğun Bakim Derneği Dergisi, 2012
Severe burn trauma causes serious metabolic derangements. Increased metabolic rate which is apart of a pathophysiologic characteristic of burn trauma results in protein-energy malnutrition.
Cem Aydoğan, Yahya Ekici
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Investigation of feeding and nutritional problems related to long-term enteral nutrition support among children with disabilities: a pilot study [PDF]

Frontiers in Nutrition
BackgroundEnteral Nutrition (EN) is considered a standard intervention for patients with disabilities who cannot meet their nutritional requirements orally and are at risk for malnutrition secondary to eating difficulties.
Sara Zaher, Hadeel Aldhowayan, Asmaa Almalki, Riman Alsaedi, Ruba Almghamsi, Lujain Aljazaeri, Walaa Abdullah Mumena   +6 more
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Role of pharmacists in providing parenteral nutrition support: current insights and future directions

Integrated Pharmacy Research and Practice, 2018
Maram Gamal KatoueDepartment of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Kuwait University, Kuwait Background: Parenteral nutrition (PN) therapy is a complex and critical therapy that requires special clinical knowledge, skills, and practice ...
Katoue MG
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Analysis of the Effects of Food Additives on Porphyromonas gingivalis

Pathogens, 2022
This study aims to investigate six food additives (octanoic acid, decanoic acid, acesulfame K, aspartame, saccharin, and sucralose) used in foods for the elderly or people with dysphagia because of the effect of these food additives on Porphyromonas ...
Mai Shinohara, Miki Maetani, Chiharu Kitada, Yasuko Nishigami, Ayaka Yazawa, Shigeki Kamitani   +5 more
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Prevention and management of major complications in percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy

BMJ Open Gastroenterology, 2021
Background Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy is a commonly used endoscopic technique where a tube is placed through the abdominal wall mainly to administer fluids, drugs and/or enteral nutrition.
Kurt Boeykens, Ivo Duysburgh
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Nasogastric tube insertion length measurement and tip verification in adults: a narrative review

Critical Care, 2023
Nasogastric feeding tube insertion is a common but invasive procedure most often blindly placed by nurses in acute and chronic care settings. Although usually not harmful, serious and fatal complications with misplacement still occur and variation in ...
Kurt Boeykens, Tom Holvoet, Ivo Duysburgh   +2 more
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Lack of hemodynamic changes in critically ill Covid-19 patients using enteral nutrition with arginine: A prospective observational study

Clinical Nutrition Open Science, 2023
Summary: Background & Aims: This study aims to correlate recommended arginine doses for an immunomodulatory effect to hemodynamic changes during the first week of enteral nutrition (EN) in SARS-CoV-2 patients.
Ricardo Schilling Rosenfeld, Mariana Rubin Pezzini, Cledia Deberaldini, Gian Pietro Filippo, Mariana Albuquerque, Juan B. Ochoa Gaultier   +5 more
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An In-Depth Look at Nutrition Support and Adequacy for Critically Ill Children with Organ Dysfunction [PDF]

Children
Patients admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) need individualized nutrition support that is tailored to their particular disease severity, nutritional status, and therapeutic interventions.
Nicole Knebusch, Paola Hong-Zhu, Marwa Mansour, Jennifer N. Daughtry, Thomas P. Fogarty, Fernando Stein, Jorge A. Coss-Bu   +6 more
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Prevention and management of minor complications in percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy

BMJ Open Gastroenterology, 2022
Background Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) was developed by Ponsky-Gauderer in the early 1980s. These tubes are placed through the abdominal wall mainly to administer fluids, drugs and/or enteral nutrition but can also be used for drainage or ...
Kurt Boeykens, Ivo Duysburgh, Wim Verlinden   +2 more
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Effect of a diet based on the dietary guidelines for americans on inflammation markers in women at risk for cardiometabolic disease: results of a randomized, controlled trial

BMC Nutrition, 2022
Objective To evaluate the effect of a diet pattern based on Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), in a controlled feeding setting, on plasma markers of inflammation and on cytokine production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC).
Sridevi Krishnan, Tammy Freytag, Xiaowen Jiang, Gertrud U. Schuster, Leslie R. Woodhouse, Nancy L. Keim, Charles B. Stephensen   +6 more
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