The introduction to the 2009 guidelines from the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition on nutrition in the intensive care unit (ICU) states, ...

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of implementing an enteral nutrition algorithm on achieving optimal enteral nutrition delivery in the PICU. Design: Prospective pre/post implementation audit of ...

Enteral nutrition is defined as the provision of essential nutrients through an enteral tube to prevent or treat disease-related malnutrition in patients who are unable to consume adequate nutrients ...

Patients in the intensive care unit who do not tolerate adequate nutrition from tube feeding should wait a week before receiving intravenous (IV) feeding because, compared with early IV feeding, it ...

The effect of delivering nutrition at different calorie levels during critical illness is uncertain, and patients typically receive less than the recommended amount. We conducted a multicenter, double ...

In critically ill patients, the median number of days free of the index hospital and alive at day 90 was similar for those who received augmented or usual protein. Findings favored usual protein for ...

In this interview, News-Medical talks to Dr. Francesca Di Mario, about hypomagnesemia in critically ill patients with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and discusses how Nova Biomedical instruments are ...

Innovative system measures stomach motility to help clinicians identify enteral feeding intolerance Technology designed to help address malnutrition in the ICU and support clinical decision-making ...

DETROIT, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) – Ascension St. John Hospital announced a new emergency therapy for patients presenting at the hospital in a severe health crisis. The hospital has launched an ...

Most coronavirus patients who end up on ventilators go on to die, according to several small studies from the U.S., China and Europe. And many of the patients who continue to live can't be taken off ...