If Your Patient Has Respiratory Failure in the ICU and Is

question 8

Multiple Choice

If your patient has respiratory failure in the ICU and is on a mechanical ventilator, generally his or her nutritional needs are:

• A)increased.
• B)decreased but only slightly.
• C)decreased dramatically.
• D)the same as those of other patients.

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