Nutritional Failure: An Adaptive Response to Critical Illness?
- 14/03/2013
For decades, intensive care unit (ICU) physicians have been administering artificial nutrition to improve recovery and outcome. This intensified nutritional support has been associated with a better outcome in several large observational studies (Alberda et al. 2009), though unfortunately, it is impossible to distinguish cause and consequence by association. Large randomised controlled trials...
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