Jorge A. Coss-Bu

TL;DR: The guidelines reiterate the importance of nutrition assessment-particularly, the detection of malnourished patients who are most vulnerable and therefore may benefit from timely intervention and there is a need for renewed focus on accurate estimation of energy needs and attention to optimizing protein intake.

TL;DR: Severe staphylococcal infections in previously healthy adolescents without predisposing risk factors have presented more frequently at Texas Children's Hospital since September 2002, with an increase in the number of severely ill patients with S aureus infections.

TL;DR: This document represents the first collaboration between two organizations, American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and the Society of Critical Care Medicine, to describe best practices in nutrition therapy in critically ill children.

TL;DR: Critically ill children are hypermetabolic and in negative NB, fat is used preferentially for oxidation and carbohydrate is utilized poorly in this population, so a high carbohydrate intake was associated with lipogenesis and less fat oxidation, a negative NB was associatedwith high oxidation rates for protein, and a high protein intake wasassociated with a positive NB.

TL;DR: It is suggested that BIA-derived body composition and phase angle measurements are valuable to assess nutritional status and growth in children, and may be useful to determine baseline measurements at hospital admission, and to monitor progress of nutrition treatment or change in nutritional status during hospitalization.