25 Apr 09
Guidelines for the provision and assessment of nutrition support therapy in the adult critically ill patient: Society of Critical Care Medicine and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
By R G Martindale, S A McClave, V W Vanek, M McCarthy, P Roberts, B Taylor, J B Ochoa, L Napolitano, G Cresci, American College of Critical Care Medicine; and the A.S.P.E.N. Board of Directors
Crit Care Med 2009;37:1757-1761
The guidelines are intended for the adult medical and surgical critically ill patient populations expected to require an ICU stay of > 2 or 3 days and are not intended for those patients in the ICU for temporary monitoring or those who have minimal metabolic or traumatic stress. The guidelines are based on populations, but like any other therapeutic treatment in an ICU patient, nutrition requirements and techniques of access should be tailored to the individual patient.