Kati is a 19-year-old female who suffered a head injury and multiple broken bones in a motorcycle accident. She is currently in a coma, on a mechanical ventilator, and receiving enteral nutrition. Kati is 5'2" tall and weighs 115 pounds
If Kati's enteral feeding is not providing adequate energy and protein to meet her nutritional needs, she will experience:
a. a loss of lean tissue.
b. hyperglycemia.
c. pulmonary edema.
d. sepsis.
a
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