Acute Lung Injury Patients Don’t Benefit From Less Nutritional Support
A study published early in JAMA , to coincide with the presentation at the 41st Critical Care Congress, reveals that even though some data indicated that lower caloric nourishment via a feeding tube may be beneficial for critically ill patients in need of mechanical ventilation, those with acute lung injury who received a smaller amount of nourishment displayed no improvement i…
February 10, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 41st, acute-lung, congress, critical, even-though, feeding-tube, nutritional counseling, on call diets, some-data, study-published
