Nutrition support

Abstract

A 25-year-old male patient (175 cm in height and 80 kg in weight), involved in a motorcycle accident, was admitted to the ICU. He had several high rib fractures and a flail segment on his left chest wall with associated major lung contusion and hemopneumothorax on the left side. He had blunt injury to abdomen with large bruises in the epigastrium. He had fractured both tibia and femur in the right lower limb. His blood pressure on arrival was 70/40 mmHg, heart rate was 145/min, and respiratory rate was 42/min. He was fully conscious but in distress. You had been asked to formulate a nutritional plan for him.