Summary Mechanical ventilation, applied either invasively through a tracheotomy tube or noninvasively via a mask, is increasingly used for long-term management of many forms of severe chronic respiratory failure in the home setting.
complete proteins: protein that contain all essential amino acid in sufficient quality to maintain balance and growth. Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page. This page was last modified on 6 July 2006, at 15:22.This page has been accessed 5,068 times.
There are some amino acids that the body cannot make in required amounts. These are called essential, and they must come from the diet. Complete protein foods have all the essential amino acids. In general, animal foods such as meat, poultry, eggs, dairy and fish are complete protein sources. Incomplete protein sources have only low amounts of some of the essential amino acids.