Assessment of resting energy expenditure in mechanically ventilated patients

摘要

A recent study by Faisy et al provided an equation for predicting energy expenditure (EE) in mechanically ventilated patients. Like Ireton-Jones and Jones, Swinamer et al, and Frankenfield et al, Faisy et al speculated that the addition of factors such as minutes of ventilation and body temperature to the traditional indexes (ie, sex, age, weight, and height) used for EE prediction would result in a better correlation.