%0 Journal Article
%T Aspectos atuais na terapia nutricional de pacientes na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva (UTI)
%A Vasconcelos
%A Maria Izabel Lamounier de
%A Tirapegui
%A Julio
%J Revista Brasileira de Ci¨ºncias Farmac¨ºuticas
%D 2002
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.1590/S1516-93322002000100003
%X the treatment of critically-ill patients has aroused great interest during the last years. the nutrition support has an important role for these patients, seeking to prevent the protein-energy malnutrition and to evaluate and determine the appropriate nutrient requeriments. some diets are available, however, immune-stimulating diets wish arginine, omega-3 fatty acids, nucleotides and glutamine have been used in an effort to decrease infectious complications, but their therapeutic advantages are still being debated.
%K enteral nutrition
%K nutrition assessment
%K immune stimulating diet.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1516-93322002000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en