Extra Calories Essential For Pressure Sore Patients To Heal Wounds
A nutritious, balanced, and appetizing diet is important for all nursing home residents. But it becomes essential for those suffering from pressure sores. This is because a person with pressure sores needs to consume more calories per day that their healthy counterparts. Facilities need to calculate each patient’s total energy expenditure (TEE) in order to meet their nutritional needs. TEE is composed of three components: basal metabolism, that is the number of calories needed to maintain a body at rest, which depends on age, sex, and body size; voluntary activity such as exercise; and energy expended to consume and metabolize...
More
Page:
1
