Tag: Nutrition

Target Protein – Augmented Enteral Protein During Critical Illness

31 July 2025 George Walker Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

Augmented Enteral Protein During Critical Illness MJ Summers. JAMA 2025; doi: 10.1001/jama.2025.9110 Clinical Question In critically ill patients receiving enteral nutrition does the augmentation of protein delivery compared to standard care result in an increased number of days free of the index hospital and alive at day 90? Background Critical illness weakness is a common complication within the ICU population […]

TGC-Fast: Tight Blood-Glucose Control without Early Parenteral Nutrition in the ICU

11 June 2025 Daniel Chung Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

Tight Blood-Glucose Control without Early Parenteral Nutrition in the ICU Gunst et al. N Engl J Med 2023;389:1180-1190 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2304855 Clinical Question In ICU patients not receiving early parenteral nutrition, does liberal glucose control (initiating insulin when blood glucose level [BGL] >11.9 mmol per liter [>215 mg per deciliter]) or tight glucose control (commencing insulin at BGL 4.4 to 6.1 […]

Continued enteral nutrition until extubation compared with fasting before extubation

17 January 2025 Jody Ede Intensive Care Medicine, Summaries Leave a comment

Continued enteral nutrition until extubation compared with fasting before extubation in patients in the intensive care unit: an open-label, cluster-randomised, parallel-group, non-inferiority trial Landais et al. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine 2023. 11:319-28. doi://10.1016/ S2213-2600(22)00413-1 Clinical Question In patients ventilated for more than 48h in the Intensive Care Unit, is continued enteral nutrition compared with fasting prior to extubation, non-inferior with […]

EFFORT

22 February 2023 andrew.achilleos@nhs.net Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

In critically ill patients, does a higher dose of protein compared to usual dose protein, improve time-to-discharge-alive from hospital up to 60 days?

Supplemental Parental Nutrition and Abdominal Surgery

15 July 2022 George Walker Intensive Care Medicine, Peri-operative Medicine, Summaries Leave a comment

In patients undergoing major abdominal surgery who are at high nutritional risk and have poor tolerance to enteral nutrition (EN) does the early use of supplemental parental nutrition (E-SPN), compared with late supplemental parental nutrition (L-SPN), reduce the risk of nosocomial infection?

TARGET

11 January 2019 Celia Bradford Intensive Care Medicine, Summaries Leave a comment

In mechanically ventilated, critically ill patients receiving enteral nutrition does energy-dense feed (1.5kCal/ml) compared with routine feed (1kCal/ml) impact on 90 day all cause mortality?

Intensive Insulin Therapy

6 April 2018 Duncan Chambler Intensive Care Medicine, Peri-operative Medicine Leave a comment

In post-operative patients requiring mechanical ventilation, does intensive insulin therapy compared to conventional insulin therapy reduce mortality?

EPaNIC

9 March 2018 Emma Ridley Intensive Care Medicine, Summaries Leave a comment

In critically ill adult patients, does late supplemental parenteral nutrition (PN), compared with early PN reduce the duration of dependency on intensive care?

EAT-ICU

27 October 2017 Emma Ridley Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

In critically ill adult patients, does early goal-directed nutrition (EGDN) during ICU stay compared to standard care nutrition delivery result in improved physical quality of life at 6 months?

Ferrie

5 February 2017 Emma Ridley Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

In critically ill adult patients receiving parenteral nutrition, does high amino acid intake compared with standard level amino acid intake, result in greater hand grip strength at ICU discharge?

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