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Open AccessToward nutrition improving outcome of critically ill patients: How to interpret recent feeding RCTs?
Although numerous observational studies associated underfeeding with poor outcome, recent randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have shown that early full nutritional support does not benefit critically ill pati...
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Open AccessClinical nutrition issues in 2022: What is missing to trust supplemental parenteral nutrition (SPN) in ICU patients?
A multidisciplinary group of international physicians involved in the medical nutrition therapy (MNT) of adult critically ill patients met to discuss the value, role, and open questions regarding supplemental ...
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Correction to: Management of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury: an update for the intensivist
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Management of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury: an update for the intensivist
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains one of the most fatal and debilitating conditions in the world. Current clinical management in severe TBI patients is mainly concerned with reducing secondary insults and o...
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Aerobic exercise capacity in long-term survivors of critical illness: secondary analysis of the post-EPaNIC follow-up study
To evaluate aerobic exercise capacity in 5-year intensive care unit (ICU) survivors and to assess the association between severity of organ failure in ICU and exercise capacity up to 5-year follow-up.
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Open AccessImpact of tight glucose control on circulating 3-hydroxybutyrate in critically ill patients
Recent evidence suggests a potentially protective effect of increasing ketone body availability via accepting low macronutrient intake early after onset of critical illness. The impact of blood glucose control...
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Open AccessTargeted treatment of iron deficiency in prolonged critical illness: an opportunity to improve survival or not?
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Clinical validation of precision medicine protocols: the last mile is the longest
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Open AccessThe clinical potential of GDF15 as a “ready-to-feed indicator” for critically ill adults
Circulating growth-differentiation factor-15 (GDF15), a cellular stress marker, abruptly increases during critical illness, but its later time course remains unclear. GDF15 physiologically controls oral intake...
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Five-year impact of ICU-acquired neuromuscular complications: a prospective, observational study
To assess the independent association between ICU-acquired neuromuscular complications and 5-year mortality and morbidity. To explore the optimal threshold of the Medical Research Council (MRC) sum score, asse...
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Open AccessTowards a fasting-mimicking diet for critically ill patients: the pilot randomized crossover ICU-FM-1 study
In two recent randomized controlled trials, withholding parenteral nutrition early in critical illness improved outcome as compared to early up-to-calculated-target nutrition, which may be explained by benefic...
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Open AccessGastrointestinal dysfunction in the critically ill: a systematic sco** review and research agenda proposed by the Section of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
Gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunction is frequent in the critically ill but can be overlooked as a result of the lack of standardization of the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. We aimed to develop a research...
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Open AccessMetabolic support in the critically ill: a consensus of 19
Metabolic alterations in the critically ill have been studied for more than a century, but the heterogeneity of the critically ill patient population, the varying duration and severity of the acute phase of il...
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Open AccessThe soluble mannose receptor (sMR/sCD206) in critically ill patients with invasive fungal infections, bacterial infections or non-infectious inflammation: a secondary analysis of the EPaNIC RCT
Invasive fungal infections (IFI) are difficult to diagnose, especially in critically ill patients. As the mannose receptor (MR) is shed from macrophage cell surfaces after exposure to fungi, we investigate whe...
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Micronutrient deficiency in critical illness: an invisible foe?
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Open AccessIs protein intake saturated at doses recommended by the feeding guidelines for critically ill patients?
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Optimal guidance for early nutrition therapy in critical illness?
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Open AccessThe intensive care medicine research agenda in nutrition and metabolism
The objectives of this review are to summarize the current practices and major recent advances in critical care nutrition and metabolism, review common beliefs that have been contradicted by recent trials, hig...
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Open AccessEarly enteral nutrition in critically ill patients: ESICM clinical practice guidelines
To provide evidence-based guidelines for early enteral nutrition (EEN) during critical illness.
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Predictive value for weakness and 1-year mortality of screening electrophysiology tests in the ICU
Muscle weakness in long-stay ICU patients contributes to 1-year mortality. Whether electrophysiological screening is an alternative diagnostic tool in unconscious/uncooperative patients remains unknown. We aim...