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Attitudes to NICE guidance on refeeding syndrome

2008; BMJ; Volume: 337; Issue: jul08 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.a680

0959-8138

Aminda De Silva, T. Smith, Mike Stroud,

Nutrition and Health in Aging

Any discussion on the risks of the refeeding syndrome should include the increased threat of infection that may often be silent in malnutrition.1 Malnourished patients may develop infection without showing the usual septic markers—such as an increased temperature, leucocyte count, or C reactive protein. We therefore advocate septic screening and a low threshold for …