Use of supplementary infusions to optimise glucose delivery rates: answers
What is the glucose delivery rate that is currently required by this patient from the 20% glucose?
What is the glucose delivery rate, in mg/kg/min, that the parenteral nutrition can provide?
Calculate how much extra glucose (in g/day) will be required to produce an appropriate GDR
If 20% glucose is to be used as the piggyback infusion in addition to the TPN to top up the GDR, what infusion rate will be required (in ml/hour)?
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