Explain why adequate nutritional support is essential in the management of critically ill patients.
What will be an ideal response?
Malnutrition in critically ill patients can create muscle fatigue, ventilatory insufficiency, and ventilatory failure. This sequence of events can lead to a need for mechanical ventilation. It can also make weaning from mechanical ventilation difficult or unsuccessful. However, excessive nutritional support is also undesirable since it may cause excessive carbon dioxide production, as well as increased work of breathing in order to eliminate excessive carbon dioxide.
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