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Critical Care Nutrition

Critical Care Nutrition is the provision of safe and optimal nutrition to patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), using evidence based practice. Early nutrition therapy may decrease disease severity, decrease complications, reduce length of stay in the ICU and decrease mortality. The Critical Care RD (Registered Dietitian) network has developed nutrition documents for regional practice to aide in the delivery of feeding ICU patients. For surgical patients it is important to reduce the period of starvation just before and after surgery, to prevent inadequate nutrient intake days before and after surgery and to modify the metabolic response to surgical stress.

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