Challenges of nutritional assessment in pediatric ICU

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 245-250

  Feferbaum, Rubens ^a   Delgado, Artur F ^a   Zamberlan, Patrícia ^a   Leone, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Critical care; Cytokines; Malnutrition; Nutritional assessment; Pediatric nutrition

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; PROTEIN;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARM MUSCLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MARKER; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FOOD INTAKE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY TEST; MALNUTRITION; METABOLIC BALANCE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATIENT MONITORING; PEDIATRICS; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TREATMENT PLANNING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CHILD; CRITICAL ILLNESS; INFLAMMATION; METHODOLOGY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; CHILD; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

EID: 65549138119     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: 14736519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCO.0b013e32832a3f43     Document Type: Review

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