TY - BOOK AU - Suzanne Fouad Mohamed Soliman AU - Hossam Ahmed Mowafi , AU - Osama Mohamed Tayeh , AU - Salwa Mostafa Elshebini , TI - Nutritional support of mechanically ventilated critically ill patients : : Comparison of different types of nutritional support before and after the implementation of an evidence based nutritional management protocol / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Suzanne Fouad Mohamed Soliman , KW - Mechanically ventilated critical ill patients KW - Nutritional status KW - Weaning N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Critical Care Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - Malnutrition is a common problem in hospitalized patients . Early assessments of nutritional status help in identifying patients for whom nutritional interventions are needed . The purpose of this study was to assess and compare the nutritional status of mechanically ventilated critical ill patients who were receiving different froms of nutritional support (conventional versus modified low carbohydrate high protein fat, enriched with natural source of glutamine arginine and omega 3 plus) ER -