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Timing and Indications for Enteral Nutrition in the Critically Ill

  • Heighes P
  • Doig G
  • Simpson F
Springer International Publishing, (2016), 55-62
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-21831-1_4
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Early initiation of enteral nutrition is indicated for all patients likely to require ICU care for more than two days. Early enteral nutrition has shown to reduce mortality, reduce gut dysfunction, prevent ventilator associated pneumonia, and shorten the duration of...

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Heighes, P. T., Doig, G. S., & Simpson, F. (2016). Timing and Indications for Enteral Nutrition in the Critically Ill. In Nutrition Support for the Critically Ill (pp. 55–62). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21831-1_4

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