Nutritional treatment has become an essential component of the management of critically ill, due to better knowledge about positive impact of nutritional support. Malnutrition among ICU patients is associated with increased morbidity, mortality, length of stay (LOS) and therefore higher costs.Several studies however suggest, that early implementation of nutritional support is associated with improved clinical outcome, shorter LOS, and decreased infection rates. One of the objectives of this study is to determine if an nutrition protocol can improve the delivery of enteral tube feeding in the ICU.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
200
Collection of patient data before implementation of a nutritional management protocol
Collection of patient data after implementation of a nutritional management protocol
Energy delivered (%of caloric target) before and after introducing the nutritional management protocol.
Time frame: During ICU stay
Protein delivered (% of caloric target) before and after introducing the nutritional management protocol
Time frame: During ICU stay
Start of enteral feeding after ICU admission
Time frame: During ICU stay
ICU mortality
Time frame: During ICU stay
Hospital mortality
Time frame: During hospital stay
length of ICU stay
Time frame: During ICU stay
length of hospital stay
Time frame: During hospital stay
use of antibiotics (days)
Time frame: During ICU stay
rate of accurately defined infections
Time frame: During ICU stay
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