NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT OF SEPTIC PATIENT WITH INITIAL CACHEXIA
<em>Enteral nutrition provided to children in critical state is necessary area of pediatrician’s activity in children’s hospital. Enteral nutrition is able to improve the prognosis of the disease significantly along with maintenance of essential functions and treatment of pathologic process, d...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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"Paediatrician" Publishers LLC
2011-01-01
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| Series: | Voprosy Sovremennoj Pediatrii |
| Online Access: | http://vsp.spr-journal.ru:80/jour/article/view/593 |
| Summary: | <em>Enteral nutrition provided to children in critical state is necessary area of pediatrician’s activity in children’s hospital. Enteral nutrition is able to improve the prognosis of the disease significantly along with maintenance of essential functions and treatment of pathologic process, decrease of duration of stay in intensive care department. Proper choice of method and volume of nutritional support and product for medical treatment depending on clinical situation is significant problem. The clinical case described in the article illustrates efficacy of modern technologies in correction of protein and energy deficiency in patient with severe sepsis and multiple organ failure developed as a result of severe untreated cystic fibrosis with cachexia and uncontrolled chronic pseudomonas infection as complications.</em><br /><strong><em>Key words: children, enteral nutrition, cystic fibrosis, sepsis, cachexia.</em></strong><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><em>(Voprosy sovremennoi pediatrii — Current Pediatrics. </em></em><em><em>2011; 10 (2): 208–210)</em></em></span> |
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| ISSN: | 1682-5527 1682-5535 |