Nutrition in the post-ICU period
Nutrition rehabilitation in recovery
The presentation covers:
- The physiology of ICU-acquired weakness
- Nutritional consequences of critical illness
- Strategies to improve nutrition rehabilitation post-ICU
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About the Presenter
Dr Emma Ridley, ANZIC-RC, Monash University and Alfred Health
Emma is a Senior Research Fellow at the ANZIC-RC, Monash University where she leads the Nutrition Program, an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Level 1 Fellow and a Senior Clinical Dietitian in ICU at The Alfred Hospital. Completing her PhD in 2018, current research interests include nutrition in the post-ICU hospitalization period, understanding the clinical application of indirect calorimetry and the effect of optimal nutrition delivery on short and long-term outcomes in ICU patients. In 2019 Emma was named as a Finalist in the ‘Clinical Research’ category of the Premier’s Awards for Health and Medical Research for the work and outcomes within her PhD. Emma regularly delivers invited national and international presentations, is an Editor with Australian Critical Care and has authored 34 peer-reviewed publications, (including in the New England Journal of Medicine). Emma has been a named investigator on $6.3 million dollars of research funding with the teams she collaborates with and is the CIA on the INTENT trial that is investigating a whole hospital nutrition intervention in critically ill patients (NCT03292237).
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