Cliniquiz

Nutrition in ICU

Pranav Bansal1, Saru Singh1, Pallavi Ahluwalia 2, Tahir M. Akbar3

 1Associate Professor, BPS Govt. Medical College, Khanpur Kalan, Sonipat, Haryana, (India) 

2Associate Professor, Teerthanker Mahaveer Medical College, Moradabad, U.P, (India)

3Anaesthetist and Pain Physician, Tawam Hospital (Johns Hopkins), Al Ain, (UAE)

 A 57 year old, female patient with weight 50 kg, height 152 cm, sustains severe injuries in a road traffic accident and is brought in emergency department of a hospital in an unconscious state. She suffers from multiple rib fractures with fracture right femur and fracture pelvis. CT scan of head revealed cerebral contusions involving frontal and parietal lobe. Patient is immediately shifted to ICU, intubated, kept on ventilatory support and central venous catheter is inserted. She is sedated with a continuous infusion of propofol @ 5 ml/hr and her current hemodynamic status is satisfactory.

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  2. Nutrition, Ch. 16. Massachusetts General Hospital Review of Critical Care medicine. Sheri M Berg, Edward A Bittner 2014. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, PA USA
  3. Chapter 190: Nutritional Therapy in the Critically Ill Patient 1969. Dominic J. Nompleggi. Irwin And Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine 7th 2012 Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, PA USA.