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Vitamins
Minerals
Nutrition in Critical Care
Deficiency's
Nutrition & Respiration
100
Organic substances needed by the body in small amounts for normal metabolism, growth & maintence
What are vitamins?
100
From the earth's crust
Where are minerals obtained from?
100
They have life threatening injuries & illnesses
What is the reason why patients are admitted to critical care units?
100
Xerophthalmia
What is vitamin A?
100
The exchange of gases(oxygen & carbon dioxide) between a living organism & its environment
What is Respiration?
200
Fat & water soluble
What are the two classifications of vitamins?
200
Minerals
What makes vital contributions to growth & maintenance of the body's health?
200
Hypermetabolic response
What is the way the body responds to life threatening injuries & illnesses?
200
Rickets
What is Vitamin D?
200
Breathing
What is ventilation?
300
The amounts of vitamins recommended in the United States to meet the needs of almost all healthy individuals
What is dietary reference intake?
300
Four percent
What is the % that minerals represent of total body weight?
300
Loss of lean body mass and death
What is the result of either under or overfeeding the critical care patients?
300
Chronic fat malabsorbtion
What is vitamin E?
300
Concerning or involving the lungs
What is pulmonary?
400
The process by which a substance combines with oxygen
What is oxidation?
400
Calcium & phosphorus combined
What is the two minerals that give bones & teeth their hardness?
400
Decreasing energy expenditure & to hypermetabolism by increasing energy expenditure
What is the way the body responds to starvation?
400
Delayed blood clotting
What is vitamin K?
400
A group of lung diseases with a common characteristic of chronic airflow obstruction
What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
500
Preformed vitamin A & provitamin A
What Vitamin comes in two forms?
500
Iron
What is attached to the protein globin to form hemoglobin?
500
Inflammation, sepsis, gastrointestinal effects, wounds, fluid imbalances & multisystem organ failure
What is some of the major complications seen in critical care?
500
Beriberi
What is thiamine?
500
An imbalance caused by a disease that affects ventilation in a patient who has a healthy lung & normal alveoli
What is acute respiratory failure?