Metabolic Monitoring

Personalizing nutritional care designed to improve patients’ health in the hospital, the ICU and at home.

About Metabolic Monitoring

For more than 70 years, Baxter has been a leader in Parenteral Nutrition (PN) therapy with solutions designed to meet the evolving needs of patients in various disease-related settings. Our next-generation PN formulations are developed to help you address today’s challenges in disease-related malnutrition and meet the unique nutritional needs of your patients.

Metabolic Monitoring Facts & Figures

~4-8%

increased likelihood of mortality in malnourished hospital patients.^6,7

~1 in 4

hospitalized patients are at risk of malnutrition.^1-4

~1 Kg

of muscle mass is lost a day in critically ill adult patients during their first 5 days of ICU stay.⁸

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We are committed to fighting malnutrition

Advancing awareness of the effects of malnutrition on patients and healthcare systems, Baxter supports patient and parent organizations around the world including the European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants (EFCNI) and Oley Foundation. Baxter also supports the advancement of the knowledge of Clinical Nutrition through grants to the ASPEN Rhoads Research Foundation and International Parenteral Nutrition Early Career Professional Development program, and an unrestricted grant to the ESPENResearch Fellowship Program. Baxter is a corporate member of the MNI industry association and a contributor to the multi-stakeholder coalition All.Can International.

We address malnutrition with clinical nutrition solutions

Baxter understands that recovery can be challenging for patients and that the right nutrition regimen can help improve outcomes. We provide a comprehensive portfolio of innovative and accessible products and services designed for patients across the continuum of care, ranging from preterm newborns to oncology patients and the chronically ill, and across healthcare settings including in the hospital, the ICU, clinics and in homes.

Our product portfolio includes nutritionally balanced ready-to-use multi-chamber bags, vitamins, trace elements, and PN solutions including amino acids and lipid emulsions. We also provide pharmacy workflow management, labelling and compounding technology to support unique patient requirements.

Important Safety Information

Rx only. For safe and proper use of the products mentioned herein, please refer to the appropriate Operator's Manual and Instructions for Use. For indications, contraindications, warnings, precautions, adverse reactions interactions, dosing and conditions of clinical use, consult the product monograph/prescribing information of the specific drug being mentioned.

See References

Russell C & Elia M. NUTRITION SCREENING SURVEYS IN HOSPITALS IN THE UK, 2007-2011. BAPEN 2014.

² Meijers JM et al. Malnutrition prevalence in The Netherlands: results of the annual Dutch national prevalence measurement of care problems. Br J Nutr 2009; 101(3):417-423.

³Imoberdorf R et al. Prevalence of undernutrition on admission to Swiss hospitals. Clin Nutr 2010; 29(1):38-41.

⁴Schindler K et al. How nutritional risk is assessed and managed in European hospitals: a survey of 21,007 patients findings from the 2007-2008 cross-sectional nutritionDay survey. Clin Nutr 2010; 29(5):552-559.

⁵Kubrak C, el al. The effects of undernutrition in hospitalised patients. Int J Nursing. 2007;44(6):1036-1054.

⁶Correia M, et al. The impact of malnutrition on morbidity, mortality, length of hospital stay and costs evaluated through a multivariate model analysis. Clin Nutr. 2003;22:235-239

⁷Goiburu ME, et al. The impact of malnutrition on morbidity, mortality and length of hospital stay in trauma patients. Nutr Hosp. 2006;21:604-610

⁸Monk DN et al. Sequential changes in the metabolic response in critically injured patients during the first 25 days after blunt trauma. Ann Surg. 1996 Apr;223(4):395-405.

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