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Critical Care Enteral Formula Improves Outcomes for a Patient with Chronic Pressure Ulcers

Kelly Brasseur, MS, RD, LD

Nutrition Services Department Vencor Hospital, Sycamore, Illinois and Department of Pulmonary Medicine Vencor Hospital, Sycamore, Illinois

Thomas Liske, MD, FCCP

Nutrition Services Department Vencor Hospital, Sycamore, Illinois and Department of Pulmonary Medicine Vencor Hospital, Sycamore, Illinois

Enteral formulas commonly used for nutrition support in trauma, hypermetabolism, surgical recovery, arid other critical illnesses are seldom used for patients outside the intensive care unit. This case study explains how a long-term, acute-care facility specializing in wound care and ventilator management was successful in improving the healing outcomes of an elderly patient with severe chronic pressure ulcers by providing nutrition support with a peptide-based, critical care enteral formula.

Nutrition in Clinical Practice, Vol. 15, No. 5, 218-222 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/088453360001500503
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