Intravenous Nutrition In Critically Ill Patients Should Be Delayed, Study Finds
Patients in the intensive care unit who do not tolerate adequate nutrition from tube feeding should wait a week before receiving intravenous (IV) feeding because, compared with early IV feeding, it enhances recovery from critical illness. Results of a new multicenter study from Belgium will be presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society’s 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston…
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Intravenous Nutrition In Critically Ill Patients Should Be Delayed, Study Finds
June 6, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: annual-meeting, belgium, care-unit, endocrine, feeding-because, feeding-should, not-tolerate, oncalldiets, the-intensive
