Richard D Fremont, Todd W Rice
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Nutrition in the critically ill patient remains a controversial topic. Most clinicians have viewed nutrition as part of patient care but not as a therapeutic intervention. Recent studies have looked at type and timing of nutrition to determine whether they affect important clinical outcomes. RECENT FINDINGS: Large-scale, multicentre randomized trials have found that supplemental parenteral nutrition has a deleterious effect in comparison to enteral nutrition alone...
March 2014: Current Opinion in Gastroenterology