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Recognizing Vitamin Deficiencies in Your Patients
When a patient’s nutritional requirements are assessed, the focus often is on calories and protein intake. But recognizing potential vitamin deficiencies and providing adequate micronutrients to patients receiving TPN is of critical importance. What conditions can predispose your patients to hypovitaminosis? Click here to learn more.
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Table of Vitamin Deficiency Symptoms
In 1997, the CDC recognized that patients receiving TPN without MVI supplementation were at risk for life-threatening complications due to certain micronutrient deficiencies. As nutritional science has expanded its understanding of additional physiologic functions of micronutrients, the concept of deficiency has been redefined. Click here for a table that identified deficiencies by signs and symptoms.
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Question of the Month
Q: How does the aluminum content of M.V.I.-12® single dose compare to Baxter's Infuvite single dose?
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Gauging Nutritional Needs
How do you determine the nutritional needs and TPN requirements of your patients? Click here for calculators, tools, and templates designed to help answer that question.
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