Kevin is a 12-month-old boy with high-risk neuroblastoma admit- ted to the hospital with vomiting and failure to thrive. His cur- rent weight is 17 pounds, or 7.7 kg (2nd percentile channel). His length is 79.4 cm (95th percentile channel). Weight for length is <2nd percentile channel. Ideal body weight for length is 10.4 kg. Required:
a. Using the WHO equation for age and sex, calculate the estimated nutrient requirements for this patient.
b. Calculate the estimated caloric intake for this same child to account for his malnourished state.
c. Using the RDA formula below to calculate catch-up needs for weight gain/growth if underweight, calculate Kevin's calorie needs using this method for infants 0-12 months.
d. Which method would you be more likely to use to assess energy needs in this patient?

What rules did the monroe doctrine set for the united states?

What is one way the congress used normal legislation to affect the executive branch of government? a) congress passed laws to regulate commerce. b) congress established federal courts below the supreme court. c) congress set up agencies, departments, and offices. d) congress creates the presidency and vice presidency.

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?