An Iranian Consensus Document for Nutrition in Critically Ill Patients, Recommendations and Initial Steps toward Regional Guidelines

Seyed Mohammadreza Hashemian, Robert G. Martindale , Hamidreza Jamaati , Ali Amirsavadkouhi , Salahaddin Mahmudi Azer , Mahdi Shadnoush , Seyed Hossein Ardehali , Atabak Najafi , Arezoo Ahmadi , Seyyed Reza Seyyedi , Ata Mahmoodpoor , Omid Moradi , Saeed Abbasi , Saeed Hosseini , Reza Shahrami , Saeed Abdi , Zahra Sepehri , Babak Omranirad , Seyed Amir Mohajerani , Pejman Rohani , Aliakbar Sayyari , Hossein Imani , and Ali Akbar Velayati 1 1 Clinical Tuberculosis and Epidemiology Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 2 Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, 3 Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, NRITLD, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 4 Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran, 5 Department of Clinical Nutrition, Faculty of Nutrition and Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 6 Department of Critical Care, Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 7 Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 8 Lung Transplantation Research Center, Department of Cardiology, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 9 Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran, 10 Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Rassol-e-Akram Complex Hospital, Trauma and Injury Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 11 Anesthesiology and Critical Care Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran, 12 School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 13 Anesthesiologist, Intensivist, 14 Department of Gastroenterology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 15 Department of Internal Medicine, Zabol University of Medical Sciences, Zabol, Iran, 16 Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepathology and Nutrition, Mofid Children Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.