The Role of Nutrition in the Management and Prevention of Pressure Ulcers

摘要: Nutritional support is a cornerstone of clinical care and should be provided to all persons, including persons with pressure ulcers, consistent medical goals patient wishes. Whether nutrition can improve the outcome ulcers remains disputable. Energy requirements for are estimated empirically between 25 30 kcal/kg/day, but have been confirmed in studies using nutritional formulas such as Harris–Benedict equation. The optimum amount protein intake not known, likely lies 1.2 1.5 g/kg/day. Higher intakes may harmful associated higher rates healing. Supplemental amino acids supertherapeutic supplements vitamins minerals shown much effect on healing ulcers. Clinical intervention trials suffer from small sample sizes poor methodological design, general exceptional benefit improving complete therapy will starvation due lack food, cachexia inflammatory conditions has remarkably resistant hypercaloric feeding.