Malnourishment in intensive care units, as high as 50% are nurses doing enough to change this?

Intensive Care Nursing

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 205-208

  Horwood, Anne ^a  

^a Staff Nurse ITU 11 The Roundway Claygate Esher Surrey UK ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENTERIC FEEDING; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; NURSING; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STARVATION;

CRITICAL CARE; ENTERAL NUTRITION; HUMAN; NUTRITION DISORDERS; STARVATION;

EID: 0025617552     PISSN: 0266612X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0266-612X(90)90024-2     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Protein status of general surgical patients
2. The malnourished respiratory patient
3. Current trends in enteral feeding
4. Nutritional support in seriously ill patients
5. Malnutrition and infection in a general intensive therapy unit
6. Malnutrition in surgical patients; an unrecognised problem
7. Nutritional problems in critical care: malnutrition and wound healing
8. Physiology for nursing practice: Endocrine function
9. Nutritional assessment of the patient undergoing surgery
10. Total parental nutrition for patients with respiratory insufficiency
11. Nutritional support of the critically injured patient
12. Reduction of operative morbidity and mortality by combined preoperative and postoperative nutritional support
13. Intensive care manual: Metabolic response to injury & stress
14. Wound healing
15. Pre-op fasting: a question of routine