Awareness, perceptions and practices of UK veterinary nurses on managing the risk of malnutrition in hospitalised cats and dogs

Current literature focusses on obesity, with minimal research surrounding malnutrition and species comparison. This study aimed to explore the current attitudes, awareness, and practises of veterinary...

Nutrition in critical care

Nutrition is described as the processes of food utilisation by a plant or animal (Merriam-Webster, 2020). The terms macro and micronutrients refer to the volume of each that is required....

The role of nutrition in critical care

Nutrition is essential for good health, but it is particularly important to critically ill patients. This is because they can quickly develop malnutrition, or pre-existing malnutrition is aggravated...

A practical approach to caring for patients with appetite reduction

Appetite can be adversely affected when circumstances interfere with the initiation of food intake (for example in the case of facial trauma or dental disease), or act to promote negative stimuli...