Nutritional assessment and enteral support of critically ill children.
Critical care nurses play an important role in feeding of critically ill children. Many procedures and caregiving interventions, such as placement of feeding tubes, registration of gastric retention, observation and care of the mouth, and administration of nutrition (enteral or parenteral), are within the nursing domain. This article discusses nutritional assessment techniques and enteral nutrition in critically ill children.
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Erwin
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Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC--Sophia Children's Hospital, P.O. Box 2060, 3000 CB Rotterdam, The Netherlands. w.ista@erasmusmc.nl
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D000886:Anthropometry; D002153:Calorimetry, Indirect; D002648:Child; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods*; D016638:Critical Illness / Q000628:therapy*; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D004750:Enteral Nutrition / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007441:Intubation, Gastrointestinal / Q000451:nursing; D008403:Mass Screening; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D009751:Nutritional Requirements; D009752:Nutritional Status; D018579:Patient Selection; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012885:Skinfold Thickness