Is nutrition support one-size-fits-all? Not at all. Unique considerations may be especially vital when feeding a hospitalized patient who is critically ill or morbidly obese, undergoing major abdominal surgery, or on multiple organ support, according to nutrition experts.
“You have to adjust your feeding for each one of these special patient populations,” said Stephen McClave, MD, a professor of medicine at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.
Yet a few key strategies are nearly