A.S.P.E.N. Clinical Guidelines: nutrition support of the critically ill child.

Guidelines for the Provision and Assessment of Nutrition Support Therapy in the Adult Critically Ill Patient: Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.).

These guidelines are intended for the adult medical and surgical critically ill patient populations expected to require an ICU stay of > 2 or 3 days and are not intended for those patients in the ICU for temporary monitoring or those who have minimal metabolic or traumatic stress. These guidelines are based on populations, but like any other therapeutic treatment in an ICU patient, nutrition re...

Restricted permission granted by the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) from the following: Journal of Parenteral and ENteral Nutrition (JPEN); Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines for Nutrition Support in Mechanically Ventilated, Criticaly ill Adult Patients

Objective: This study was conducted to develop evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for nutrition support (ie, enteral and parenteral nutrition) in mechanically ventilated critically ill adults. Options: The following interventions were systematically reviewed for inclusion in the guidelines: enteral nutrition (EN) versus parenteral nutrition (PN), early versus late EN, dose of EN, compo...

The use of parenteral nutrition in an acute care hospital.

INTRODUCTION Parenteral nutrition (PN) is an important supportive therapy. However, it is expensive and associated with significant complications. Our aim is to describe the patients given PN in 2006, to compare with the 2001 cohort and determine if PN had been prescribed for the appropriate indications. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective cohort study of adult patients receiving PN between...

A.S.P.E.N. clinical guidelines: nutrition support of children with human immunodeficiency virus infection.

Nutritional Assessment in Critically Ill Patients

Background: Malnutrition is an important factor in the survival of critically ill patients. The purpose of the present study was to assess the nutritional status of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) on the days of admission and discharge via a detailed nutritional assessment. Methods: Totally, 125 patients were followed up from admission to discharge at 8ICUs in Shiraz, Iran. The patien...