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Introduction Refeeding syndrome (RS) is a potentially fatal condition and our trust has local guidelines in place to monitor for RS. Junior doctors on the wards are often the ones who are most ...

7 The nurse also assesses whether the patient or caregiver is ... those with uncontrolled diabetes or major organ dysfunction, or those at high risk of refeeding syndrome.7,8 Replacing fluid and ...

Refeeding syndrome (RFS) describes potentially fatal shift in electrolytes in severe malnourished patients receiving rapid and excessive food re-introduction. It is a result of hormonal and metabolic ...

Risk factors for the syndrome include starvation, chronic alcoholism, anorexia nervosa and surgical interventions that require lengthy periods of fasting. The causes of the refeeding syndrome are ...

Japanese researchers trying to get a handle on a phenomenon known as refeeding syndrome discovered that starving soldiers who survived the siege of Tottori Castle in 1581 died en masse after ...

Besides the tests for STDs, and pregnancy, refeeding syndrome is another test the hostages will be undergoing. Refeeding syndrome is something that happens when someone who has been malnourished ...