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Nutrition is of paramount importance during curation of any disease, and can be administered by enteral or parenteral route. As both under- and overfeeding are undesirable and even harmful, one should aim at reaching a slightly positive energy balance. This can be achieved be supplementation of calories according to measurement or calculation of energy expenditure. Bedside measurements are always done indirectly as direct calorimetry is impractical and both methods correlate adequately in clinical practice [1]. Indirect calorimetry consists of metabolic gas exchange measurement (O2 consumption and CO2 production) and can be done by indirect or direct means. Energy expenditure is calculated from there indices.
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Bruining, H.A., van Lanschot, J.J.B., Vermeij, C.G. (1989). Monitoring of Energy Expenditure. In: Vincent, J.L. (eds) Update 1989. Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83737-1_23
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