Energy requirement help

RE: Energy requirement help

PSA-David — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 12:41:07 GMT

don't we need to add in the trauma energy requirement of multiple trauma/head trauma of 1.5-2.3 x (BER). As this is still carried out in a lot of practices/referral centres. even to human hospitals this is still a requirement.

RE: Energy requirement help

kimholly — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 06:40:44 GMT

Thank you so so much for you help that has made it a lot clearly to understand!! I really appreciate it. It's for the ANA course I'm doing at the moment. I need to get it finished asap because I'm starting the VN course in September!

again thank you :)

RE: Energy requirement help

Steph Worsley — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 00:24:14 GMT

you need to first calculate your BER if over 5 Kg it is 30x BW+70, so using your 10kg dog as an example: 30x10+70 = 370Kcal/24hr, the diet is effectively 1kcal/1gram so you then divide your BER by your energy content in the food: 370/1 = 370g/24 hrs, if you had a not so easy energy content ( say 127kcal/100g) you can either divide that by 100 to get your Kcal/g (1.27) or divide your BER by the content in 100g (370/127) and then multiply it by 100 both equations will give you exactly the same answer.

I'm not sure if they are still teaching illness /disease factors in the SVN syllabus but they have actually been discounted by and large - just to confuse you some more!!!