Nutritional care of the critically ill patient with respiratory failure.
Nutritional support is an integral part of the therapy for lung dysfunction because malnutrition can predispose an already critically ill patient to pneumonia and respiratory failure. Physicians must, however, be sensitive to the changes in cardiac and respiratory function that certain nutrients can cause.
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College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York.
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D003422:Critical Care; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D009752:Nutritional Status; D010289:Parenteral Nutrition, Total; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000628:therapy*