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Nutrition in Critical Illness

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Nutrition is fundamental to health, and therefore, the provision of adequate nutrition to hospitalized patients should be a priority for health-care providers. For children in the intensive care setting, this can be difficult given their multitude of medical needs. This chapter aims to provide an overview of the basic tenets of nutritional care of the PICU patient.

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    Margaret A. Satchell

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    Steven E. Lucking

  2. Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Janet Weis Children’s Hospital, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, USA

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Satchell, M.A. (2021). Nutrition in Critical Illness. In: Lucking, S.E., Maffei, F.A., Tamburro, R.F., Zaritsky, A. (eds) Pediatric Critical Care . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53363-2_5

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