Search Tag: ESPEN guidelines

ICU Management

Volume-19-issue-3-2019-1

2019 26 Sep

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ICU Management

New-espen-guidelines-for-nutrition-in-the-critically-ill-help-what-happened

2019 26 Sep

ESPEN guidelines for nutrition in critical illness have shifted from optimistic anticipative nutritional pharmacotherapy towards cautious and balanced metabolic support. This important new orientation in ICU nutrition management is a consequence of recent strong RCT-based evidence.   Introduction   Recently, the new ESPEN guidelines for critically...Read more

ICU Management

New-trends-in-icu-nutrition

2019 26 Sep

The new trends in nutrition management included in the last guidelines are discussed, in particular the route and the dose of calories and proteins recommended. During the last decade, numerous paradigms and dogmas based on observational cohort studies were challenged by the publication of large multicentre prospective randomised controlled...Read more

ICU Management

Obesity-and-nutrition-in-critical-illness

2019 26 Sep

The role of nutrition in obese critically ill patients and an overview of the clinical guidelines for nutrition provision in this patient population. Introduction   The World Health Organization defines obesity as an excess of abdominal fat that poses an increased risk to health. Characterised by a body mass index (BMI) ≥30 kg/m2, obesity...Read more