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Evidence-based guideline for nutritional assessment, enteral and parenteral nutrition, micronutrient supplementation, and special population management in the critically ill patient.
Comprehensive guide to immunonutrition (arginine, glutamine, omega-3 fatty acids, antioxidants), and nutrition management in special ICU populations including sepsis, burns, trauma, TBI, acute pancreatitis, ECMO, obesity, chronic critical illness, open abdomen, and CRRT.
Comprehensive guide to parenteral nutrition in the ICU: indications, timing controversies, composition, lipid emulsions, monitoring, complications, transition to EN, and micronutrient supplementation including thiamine, vitamin C, vitamin D, selenium, zinc, and refeeding syndrome prevention.
Comprehensive guide to enteral nutrition in the critically ill: timing of initiation, gastric vs post-pyloric access, advancement protocols, formula selection, gastric residual volume management, prokinetic agents, complications including aspiration and refeeding syndrome, and EN during prone positioning and vasopressor therapy.
Comprehensive guide to nutrition screening tools (NUTRIC score, NRS-2002, mNUTRIC), limitations of traditional biomarkers, body composition assessment, indirect calorimetry, predictive equations, caloric and protein targets, and obesity adjustments in the critically ill adult.