Faculty
Prof. Jan Wernerman, Senior consultant
Professor Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm, SE
Contributions
2Indirect Calorimetry to Measure Energy Requirements: From Consensus to Daily Practice
Why Personalize Nutrition Therapy? The need for personalized nutrition therapy for ICU patients is shown by several observational studies that measured the energy needs of critically ill patients. The 2005 study by Villet and colleagues found that patients with an energy deficit had an increa
Nutrition Monitoring
Most important when monitoring nutrition is to decide upon the nutritional goal for the individual patient. Technically nutrition balance, indirect calorimetry and blood chemistry are the cornerstones.To monitor nutrition is not complicated or difficult. What is more problematic is to monitor nutrit
