• Greet Van den Berghe


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    Full Professor Clinical Division and Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine —  KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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  • New ESPEN Guidelines for Nutrition in the Critically Ill: Help, What H

    • 26/09/2019

    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 ill patients have been published. They ar

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  • Glycaemic control in critically ill patients: how tight should it be?

    • 16/03/2018

    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 in critically ill patients to...

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  • The role of autophagy in the metabolism and outcomes after surgery

    • 15/09/2017

    Increasing evidence implicates autophagy as repair process crucial for recovery from critical illness-induced vital organ failure and muscle weakness. This article summarises recent evidence and highlights potential implications for therapy.   Progress in intensive care medicine has resulted in improved survival from acute life-threatening conditions. Still, a considerable number of patients

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