Purpose To provide evidence-based guidelines for early enteral nutrition (EEN) during
critical illness. Methods We aimed to compare EEN vs. early parenteral nutrition (PN) and vs …

The results of recent large-scale clinical trials have led us to review our understanding of the
metabolic response to stress and the most appropriate means of managing nutrition in …

Background & aims Malnutrition has been recognized as a major risk factor for adverse
postoperative outcomes. The ESPEN Symposium on perioperative nutrition was held in …

Enteral nutrition (EN) via tube feeding is, today, the preferred way of feeding the critically ill
patient and an important means of counteracting for the catabolic state induced by severe …

Following the new ESPEN Standard Operating Procedures, the previous guidelines to
provide best medical nutritional therapy to critically ill patients have been updated. These …

Acute renal failure increases risk of death after cardiac surgery. However, it is not known
whether more subtle changes in renal function might have an impact on outcome. Thus, the …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Malnutrition is a known risk factor for the development of
complications in hospitalised patients. We determined whether eating only fractions of the …

Background Patients admitted to intensive-care units are at high risk of health-care-
associated infections, and many are caused by antimicrobial-resistant pathogens. We aimed …

Because development of acute renal failure is one of the most potent predictors of outcome
in cardiac surgery patients, the prevention of renal dysfunction is of utmost importance in …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Recognition and treatment of undernutrition in hospitalized patients
are not often a priority in clinical practice. OBJECTIVES: We investigated how the nutritional …