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• February 06, 2012
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  Restricting calories early on does not help acute lung injury patients on ventilators

  Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:51pm EST

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  Acute lung injury patients on ventilators who require a feeding tube have a similar number of ventilator-free hospital days and similar mortality rates if they receive a low-calorie feeding program initially followed by a full-calorie program compared to a full-calorie program right away. These results are part of a new clinical study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health.