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Monitoring Nutritional Support in the Intensive Care Unit

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From Nutrition Support to Pharmacologic Nutrition in the ICU

Part of the book series: Update in Intensive Care Medicine ((UICMSOFT,volume 34))

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Nutritional assessment has been discussed elsewhere in this book. However nutritional monitoring starts with assessment. We shall discuss some aspects briefly by way of introduction.

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  1. Department of Human Nutrition, St. Bartholomew’s and The Royal London Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK

    J. Powell-Tuck

  2. Department of Anaesthetics, St. Bartholomew’s and The Royal London Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK

    D. R. Goldhill

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  1. University Hospital, 1211, Geneva 14, Switzerland

    Claude Pichard MD, PhD (Head of Clinical Nutrition) (Head of Clinical Nutrition)

  2. Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA

    Kenneth A. Kudsk MD (Professor of Surgery) (Professor of Surgery)

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Powell-Tuck, J., Goldhill, D.R. (2002). Monitoring Nutritional Support in the Intensive Care Unit. In: Pichard, C., Kudsk, K.A. (eds) From Nutrition Support to Pharmacologic Nutrition in the ICU. Update in Intensive Care Medicine, vol 34. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57119-0_16

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