Early oral feeding is the preferred mode of nutrition for surgical patients. Avoidance of any
nutritional therapy bears the risk of underfeeding during the postoperative course after major …

Severe burn causes significant metabolic derangements that make nutritional support
uniquely important and challenging for burned patients. Burn injury causes a persistent and …

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 …

Dr. Taylor disclosed serving as an ASPEN committee member and DNS past chair. Dr.
McClave disclosed other relationships with Nestle (consulting), Abbott (Speaker) …

Background The appropriate caloric goal for critically ill adults is unclear. We evaluated the
effect of restriction of nonprotein calories (permissive underfeeding), as compared with …

278 Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition/Vol. 33, No. 3, May/June 2009 grade for the
recommendation was based on the number and level of investigative studies referable to …

Stress-induced hyperglycemia is a common problem in patients admitted to the ICU, even
when glucose homeostasis has previously been normal. Hyperglycemia is a near-universal …

OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to develop evidence‐based clinical practice
guidelines for nutrition support (ie, enteral and parenteral nutrition) in mechanically …

The ESPEN guidelines on enteral nutrition are the first evidence-based European
recommendations for enteral nutrition. They were established by European experts for a …

Background: Current recommendations for higher protein/amino acid provision in the
critically ill are based on weak evidence. This double‐blinded randomized controlled trial …