At University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment there is the Performance Nutrition and Body Composition Laboratory.

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).

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.