Elsevier

Clinical Nutrition

Volume 38, Issue 1, February 2019, Pages 48-79
Clinical Nutrition

ESPEN Guideline
ESPEN guideline on clinical nutrition in the intensive care unit

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Summary

Following the new ESPEN Standard Operating Procedures, the previous guidelines to provide best medical nutritional therapy to critically ill patients have been updated. These guidelines define who are the patients at risk, how to assess nutritional status of an ICU patient, how to define the amount of energy to provide, the route to choose and how to adapt according to various clinical conditions. When to start and how to progress in the administration of adequate provision of nutrients is also described. The best determination of amount and nature of carbohydrates, fat and protein are suggested. Special attention is given to glutamine and omega-3 fatty acids. Particular conditions frequently observed in intensive care such as patients with dysphagia, frail patients, multiple trauma patients, abdominal surgery, sepsis, and obesity are discussed to guide the practitioner toward the best evidence based therapy. Monitoring of this nutritional therapy is discussed in a separate document.

Keywords

Intensive care
Nutrition
Enteral
Parenteral
Guidelines
ESPEN

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