Intensive care unit nutrition -- nonsense or neglect?
Systematic undernutrition of intensive care unit patients is common and neglected. Is this inevitable or can better routines and protocols make a difference? The necessity of feeding may be regarded as self-evident, but more evidence is obviously needed to strengthen this issue. In rich countries it should be a human right not to be hungry.
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden. jan.wernerman@karolinska.se
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D002149:Energy Intake; D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D009752:Nutritional Status; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition