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Chronic Critical Illness

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Critical Care Nutrition Therapy for Non-nutritionists

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Patients who survive an acute severe medical insult but who continue to require intensive medical care enter into a state of chronic critical illness (CCI). Nonadaptive molecular and cellular responses render CCI as a unique condition, without evolutionary precedent, that is only possible through modern medical practices [1].

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  1. Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Bone Disease, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Michael A. Via & Jeffrey I. Mechanick

  2. The Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health at Mount Sinai Heart, New York, NY, USA

    Jeffrey I. Mechanick

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Via, M.A., Mechanick, J.I. (2018). Chronic Critical Illness. In: Berger, M. (eds) Critical Care Nutrition Therapy for Non-nutritionists. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58652-6_12

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