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Sharon Y Irving1, Peggi Guenter, Nilesh M Mehta
1Sharon Y. Irving is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and an NP at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia pediatric intensive care unit, both in Philadelphia, Pa. Peggi Guenter is a senior director of clinical practice, quality, and advocacy at the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition in Silver Spring, Md. Nilesh M. Mehta is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School as well as the director of critical care nutrition, medical-surgical ICU medical director, and director of quality and outcomes at Boston Children's Hospital, both in Boston, Mass. He also serves as the current president of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition.
Abstract:
Optimal nutrition support in critically ill children is associated with improved outcomes and decreased mortality. Nutrition provision often competes with other care priorities in critically ill patients. The 2017 Guidelines for the Provision and Assessment of Nutrition Support Therapy in the Pediatric Critically Ill Patient supplement clinician knowledge and inform best practices for nutrition therapy in this vulnerable patient population.
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