Caroline Day

Dietitian, Nutrition and Dietetic 

Biography: Intensive Care Dietitian. My role involves ensuring ICU patients meet their nutrition requirements via oral , enteral or parenteral feeding.

Horizon Fellowship project summary: To purchase an indirect calorimeter for the ICU unit and integrate the use of indirect calorimetry to the everyday nutritional management of ICU patients.

Estimated number of patients / staff impacted by the project: All ICU patients.

Goal(s) for time on the Horizon Fellowship programme: To gain skills in how to implement change and ensure that once purchased , the new equipment is integrated into everyday care.