Faculty
Prof. Elisabeth De Waele, MD, PhD
Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Researcher Vitality Research Group Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Brussels, BE
Contributions
3Why the Future of ICU Nutrition Doesn’t Exist
By 2050, medical nutrition is active therapy, instead of a cost centre. Transitioning to phenotype-driven, continuous care models saves billions while transforming survivors' long-term functional recovery and reducing healthcare utilisation. Introduction In the year 2050, the concept of th
Nutrition Management of COVID-19 Patients in the ICU and Post-ICU
This article is a summary of a webinar series where three nutritional experts discussed a practical approach on how to feed and how to provide high-quality nutritional therapy to critically ill patients during hospitalisation. Prof Elizabeth De Waele, Dr Arthur Van Zanten and Prof Paul Wischmeyer in
Adaptive Strategies for Intensive Care During the Spread of COVID-19: The Brussels Experience
Structured interventions and bottom-up initiatives at a tertiary Intensive Care Unit in Brussels, Belgium.IntroductionOptimisation of medical response to no-notice events has been an important focus of research in the field of disaster medicine (Debacker et al. 2016). However, evidence-driven develo
