Andrea Devecchi, 30, food science and nutrition specialist at Sperino Hospital in Torino (Italy), explains why Indirect Calorimetry is so important in ICU to provide the correct nutritional support on Covid patients. Over the last few months, many young health professionals have passed from university exams to Covid departments: new graduates or newly specialized who as soon as they entered the...
The New Generation of Metabolic Monitors for Indirect Calorimetry in Clinical Practice and Critical Care. Discover more about COSMED Q-NRG+
Dr. Cathy Alberda, Clinical Nutrition Program Lead at Royal Alexandra Hospital, explains how the device helps clinicians tailor nutrition needs of both ventilated and non-ventilated patients by measuring oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in a patient’s breath to determine their Resting Energy Expenditure (REE). Thanks to donors to the Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation, COSMED Q-NRG+ was purchased...
Q-NRG is a unique product, resulting from COSMED’s collaboration with world-class institutes in the field of nutrition support in intensive care units. This collaboration has made possible the development of an accurate metabolic system simple to use and at the same time resolving all typical pitfalls of indirect calorimetry technology (no warm-up time, no gas calibrations, etc.). Q-NRG is the ultimate...
Q-NRG uses the Gold Standard Indirect Calorimetry technique to measure metabolic parameters. The technique itself guarantees that the results reflect the metabolic alterations during illness and repeated measurements may correspond with disease progression or resolution. Q-NRG is the ultimate tool to develop individual nutrition support plans and optimize them to prevent over/underfeeding, to...
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