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01-09-2009 | Correspondence
Tolerance of enteral feeding: from quantity to quality of gastric residual volume?
Authors:
Michele Umbrello, Giovanluigi Elia, Anne Lucia Leona Destrebecq, Gaetano Iapichino
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 9/2009
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Excerpt
Dear Sir: Nutritional support is essential in the management of critically ill patients; enteral nutrition is preferred to parenteral [
1], because the latter may favour immune compromise and infections, is more costly, and leads to adverse outcome in some subsets of patients. Moreover, many studies have shown that this evidence is even more pronounced with the use of early enteral nutrition [
2]. …