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Nutritional challenges in ICU patients
2018 16 Mar
This symposium explored controversial aspects of the nutritional management of patients in the ICU. There are new concepts and old controversies such as the role of permissive underfeeding and the optimal timing of nutrient delivery. Glucose control is also one such area where there is still no widespread agreement on optimal targets for blood glucose... Read more
Glycaemic control in critically ill patients: how tight should it be?
2018 16 Mar
There is still no widespread agreement around optimal targets for glucose control in the ICU: some clinicians maintain that glucose control is unnecessary and harmful, while others claim that blood glucose control is essential to improve prognosis.1-3 Those who favour liberal glycaemic control assert that hyperglycaemia is simply a beneficial adaptation... Read more
Dysglycaemia in the critically ill
2018 16 Mar
As has been pointed out, the benefits of tight glycaemic control in the ICU have by no means been clearly established or accepted. In 2010 a meta-analysis of seven prospective randomised studies concluded that intensive insulin therapy in mixed ICU patients was not supported by evidence.19 Today we understand that hyperglycaemia, hypoglycaemia, and high... Read more
Facilitated glucose control in the ICU through nutrition
2018 16 Mar
As recently as 2010, the view of metabolic requirements for patients admitted to ICU was that all patients had the same metabolic needs and could therefore be managed with the same nutritional product. In general, critically ill patients were fed along the same lines as healthy people in the ratio of around 50% carbohydrates, 35% lipids and 15% protein.... Read more
The increased recognition of proteins in critical illness
2018 16 Mar
There are many new concepts and old controversies surrounding nutrition in critical care such as: the role of trophic feeding, permissive underfeeding, the use of immune modulating agents, and the optimal timing of nutrient delivery. However, enteral nutrition and protein delivery have consistently been found to be beneficial. Traditionally, the concerns... Read more
International Growth & Development Conference - IGDC 2018
2018 14 Mar
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Optimising nutrition for recovery after ICU
2017 15 Sep
Optimising nutrition and metabolism post-ICU for recovery of functional lean body mass and quality of life. In-hospital mortality following intensive care unit (ICU) care has consistently declined in recent years (Kaukonen et al. 2014). However, these data reveal many of these ICU “survivors” are not returning home to functional lives after the ICU,... Read more