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Nutritional Assessments A key component of nutritional assessment is determination of daily caloric requirements. Current clinical practice is to use a predictive normal equation for most patients. Use of these equations in many patients amounts to nothing more than a best guess. Guessing caloric needs could be justified when metabolic carts were expensive and difficult to use. Now that the REEVUE indirect calorimeter is available, there is no reason not to measure the resting energy expenditure of every patient receiving nutritional care. The REEVUE
by Korr Medical Technologies is an easy, accurate, and affordable system
for measuring resting energy expenditure in non-intubated patients. |
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