TPN Flashcards
The healthy adult requirements of protein?
0.8-1gm of protein/kg/day
Critical ill patients require
1.5 gm/kg/day
Patients on hemodialysis require protein?
1.2-1.3 gm/kg/day
Renal failure require protein?
0.6-0.8 gm/kg/day
Glucose utilization maximum rate
5-7 mg/kg/min
Sodium requirements
100 to150 mEq
Calcium requirements
10 to 20 mEq
Phosphorus requirements
15 to 30 mEq
Refeeding syndrome can correlate with
Hypophophatemia
Respiratory distress
Rhabdomyolysis
Acute kidney injury
A glucose infusion grater than 5mg/Kg/min can result in
Fatty liver
Determine the treatment and the form of needed nutrition
Clinician
Asses the nutritional status of the patients calculate the daily requirements and designs the feeding regiment
Dietician