The impact of a tailored nutrition intervention delivered for the duration of hospitalisation on daily energy delivery for patients with critical illness (INTENT): a phase II randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nutrition interventions commenced in ICU and continued through to hospital discharge have not been definitively tested in critical care to date. To commence a program of research, we aimed to determine if a tailored nutrition intervention delivered for the duration of hospitalisation delivers more energy than usual care to patients initially admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Methods

A multicentre, unblinded, parallel-group, phase II trial was conducted in twenty-two hospitals in Australia and New Zealand. Adult patients, requiring invasive mechanical ventilation (MV) for 72-120 h within ICU, and receiving < 80% estimated energy requirements from enteral nutrition (EN) were included. The intervention (tailored nutrition) commenced in ICU and included EN an

SUBMITTER: Ridley EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11706088 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature