Nutritional Management of the Patient with Acute Respiratory Failure

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Nutritional Management of the Patient with Acute Respiratory Failure

CME credit is no longer available for this conference.

Joel Mason, M.D., and Scott Epstein, M.D.

In the last three years, Dr. Mason has received grant/research support from Mead-Johnson Nutritional and also served as a consultant for Mead-Johnson Nutritional.

Dr. Epstein is Associate Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine and Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston.

Dr. Epstein reports no conflict of interest.

This activity is supported by an educational grant from .

Release Date: 10/28/2003
Termination Date: 10/28/2006

Estimated time to complete: 1 hour(s).

Albert Einstein College of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this Cyberounds^®, the participant should be able to:

Discuss the prevalence and impact that protein-calorie malnutrition has on the outcome of patients with acute respiratory failure
Describe which patients benefit most from aggressive nutritional support in the ICU setting, and some of the seminal principles involved in providing such support while minimizing its adverse side effects
Discuss the rationale behind the use of some of the newer liquid nutritional enteral formulations and discuss whether sufficient evidence exists at present to support their use.