CARE QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS { GRADED A+}
what did nutrition support used to be regarded as? - ✔✔adjunctive care
(secondary care)
what are the outcomes of nutrition support with critically ill patients? -
✔✔- reduced infectious complications
- decreased length of stay
- improved structural integrity vili in the gut
- attenuates the metabolic response to stress
what happens when the metabolic response to stress is triggered? - ✔✔-
increase provision of energy substrates to vital tissues
,- pathways of energy production are altered & alternative substrates are
used as a result
what is the body's metabolic response to stress? - ✔✔- an adaptive
response to survive critical illness
- hypermetabolic, catabolic response to acute injury or disease
what are examples of the metabolic responses to stress? - ✔✔- increase
in energy expenditure
- stress hyperglycemia
- changes in body composition
what is a major long-term consequence of stress metabolism? - ✔✔loss
of muscle proteins & function
what do metabolic consequences of stress result from? - ✔✔- hormone
release
- acute-phase protein synthesis
- sustained inflammatory response
, - increased reliance on gluconeogenesis
- shifts in fluid balance
- decreased urine output
when will malnutrition develop? - ✔✔- when the body is unable to
utilize nutrients
- when needs are so high that current intake cannot meet demands
what becomes the preferential means of obtaining energy during
starvation? - ✔✔lipolysis
what serves as the primary energy source during starvation? -
✔✔accumulated lipid stores
are energy needs increased or decreased during starvation? -
✔✔decreased
are energy needs increased or decreased during metabolic stress? -
✔✔increased