High-dose vitamin D for ICU patients who are vitamin D deficient does not improve outcomes
Administration of high-dose vitamin D3 compared with placebo did not reduce hospital length of stay, intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay, hospital mortality, or the risk of death at 6 months…
September 30, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: emergency medicine, high-dose-vitamin, hospital-length, hospital-mortality, icu, not-reduce, nutrition, placebo-did, risk, the-risk
Enriching feeding tube nutrition with immune-modulating nutrients does not reduce risk of infection among ICU patients
Among mechanically ventilated intensive care unit (ICU) patients, receipt of high-protein nutrition via a feeding tube enriched with immune-modulating nutrients (such as glutamine, omega-3 fatty…
August 5, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: care-unit, diet, feeding-tube, icu, mechanically-ventilated, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutrition-via, oncalldiets, such-as-glutamine, ventilated-intensive
