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Hear Dr Elizabeth Weekes talking ‘nutritional requirements’ which compliments the new chapter of the PENG Pocket Guide to Clinical Nutrition

Online Resources – Adult Nutritional Requirements Guidelines

Aim

To provide additional material to aid the estimation of energy requirements in clinical practice, for patients requiring nutritional support.

Introduction

The papers cited in the online resources were identified during the searches conducted by the PENG Requirements Guideline Development Group (GDG) in preparation for Section 3 of the Pocket Guide to Clinical Nutrition (2018). Data from these studies could not be included in Tables 3.1 or 3.2 because resting energy expenditure (REE) was not reported in kcal/kg body weight (BW) or kcal/kg fat free mass (FFM).

Online resource 1 – Disease-specific regression equations

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The underlying principle of disease-specific regression equations is to use a combination of static measures and physiological parameters to estimate requirements in specific populations. The equations presented in this resource were derived for specific clinical populations (e.g. patients with burn injury or chronic heart failure), and should only be used in similar populations. Clinicians are advised to read the full paper(s) before deciding whether or not the population in the study is sufficiently similar to their own patient population.

Note that a proportion of the regression equations were not validity-tested in a similar population and so they should be used with caution

Online resources 2 – Resting energy expenditure (REE), total energy expenditure (TEE) or physical activity

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This resource provides data on REE in kcal/day for clinical conditions where there were no data on REE kcal/kg BW or kcal/kg FFM. It also summarises data from studies where TEE was measured in clinical populations and data from studies where the energy expended in physical activity was either measured or estimated from measures of REE and TEE.

The data summarised in this resource are intended to provide guidance in the estimation of TEE and physical activity level only for those clinical populations where data have been presented. All data are mean (standard deviation) unless otherwise stated.

Clinicians are advised not to use these data to make assumptions about TEE and physical activity in other clinical conditions.

Basal metabolic rate (BMR) prediction equations

More than twenty BMR prediction equations derived in, and for, healthy populations exist in the literature. While the Henry (2005) BMR prediction equation was recommended for use in clinical practice in the previous version of the Pocket Guide to Clinical Nutrition, its use is no longer recommended by the PENG GDG for patients requiring nutritional support.Clinicians are reminded that the estimations derived using the new method presented in Section 3 of the Pocket Guide to Clinical Nutrition (2018) will not be directly comparable to estimations derived using the factorial method recommended in the previous edition of the Pocket to Clinic al Nutrition.

(Data for the online resources were compiled and tabulated by Elizabeth Weekes and Danielle Judges on behalf of the PENG GDG).

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Pocket Guide to Clinical Nutrition Q&A related to previous edition

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