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Current Controversies In Critical Care Pharmacotherapy: Incorporating Evidence Into Practice. How Can We Start Nutrition, Jane Gervasio Sep 2006

Current Controversies In Critical Care Pharmacotherapy: Incorporating Evidence Into Practice. How Can We Start Nutrition, Jane Gervasio

Jane M. Gervasio

No abstract provided.


Nutrition In The Critically Ill Patient, Jane M. Gervasio Sep 2006

Nutrition In The Critically Ill Patient, Jane M. Gervasio

Scholarship and Professional Work – COPHS

Critical illness presents with the classic response to stress, including hypermetabolism and increased catabolism, resulting in a negative energy and nitrogen balance. These harmful events initiate the immunological response, starting with the systemic inflammatory response syndrome, which, if not resolved, may lead to multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS). Furthermore, patients who do not develop early MODS manifest a compensation anti-inflammatory response syndrome, which suppresses immunity and predisposes the patient to sepsis, thereby ­increasing the risk of late MODS and ultimately death. The use of specialized nutrition support, including enteral nutrition (EN) and parenteral nutrition (PN), has been initiated in an …


Bowel Necrosis Associated With Enteral Feeding, Jane M. Gervasio, Ryan Ednalino, Jennifer Reynolds, Gary P. Zaloga Mar 2006

Bowel Necrosis Associated With Enteral Feeding, Jane M. Gervasio, Ryan Ednalino, Jennifer Reynolds, Gary P. Zaloga

Scholarship and Professional Work – COPHS

Abstract from Clinical Nutrition Week, Dallas, TX, February 12-15, 2006.


Bowel Necrosis Associated With Enteral Nutrition, Jane Gervasio Jan 2006

Bowel Necrosis Associated With Enteral Nutrition, Jane Gervasio

Jane M. Gervasio

No abstract provided.