Enriching feeding tube nutrition with immune-modulating nutrients does not reduce risk of infection among ICU patients
Among mechanically ventilated intensive care unit (ICU) patients, receipt of high-protein nutrition via a feeding tube enriched with immune-modulating nutrients (such as glutamine, omega-3 fatty…
August 5, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: care-unit, diet, feeding-tube, icu, mechanically-ventilated, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutrition-via, oncalldiets, such-as-glutamine, ventilated-intensive
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
Feeding Tubes For Elderly Dementia Patients
In hundreds of interviews in five states with family members of persons who had advanced dementia, researchers found that their decision-making process for whether to insert a feeding tube often lacked necessary information for informed consent…
May 6, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: alzheimer's / dementia, decision, diet, feeding-tube, five-states, necessary-information, often-lacked, on call diets, their-decision-making
