Abstract:
Critical care: According to Intensive Care Society document Levels of Critical Care for Adult
Patients (2009) in Therapists et al., 2013, is defined as specialty staffed and equipped, separate
and self-contained area of a hospital dedicated to the management and monitoring of patients
with life threatening conditions.
Enteral feeding: Feeding provided through the gastrointestinal tract via a tube, catheter, or
stoma that delivers nutrients distal to the oral cavity (Cober et al., 2015).
Emergency care: A sudden and usually unforeseen event that calls for immediate measures
to minimize its adverse consequences (WHO, 2008).
Nutritional support: According to Hussein, 2008: Nutritional support is a vital part of the
treatment in patients with critical illness and injury.
Nutrition therapy: According to Cahill et al., (2014) nutritional therapies are individualized and
targeted nutritional care measures using diet or artificial nutritional support. Nutritional therapies
can be therapeutic or preventive.
Barrier: is defined as factors that hinder the implementation of recommended guidelines in
clinical practice and this result in an increased gap between recommended guidelines and
practices.
