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Nutrition support practices in critically ill head-injured patients: a global perspective

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Title
Nutrition support practices in critically ill head-injured patients: a global perspective
Published in
Critical Care, January 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13054-015-1177-1
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Lee-anne S. Chapple, Marianne J. Chapman, Kylie Lange, Adam M. Deane, Daren K. Heyland

Abstract

Critical illness following head injury is associated with a hypermetabolic state but there are insufficient epidemiological data describing acute nutrition delivery to this group of patients. Furthermore, there is little information describing relationships between nutrition and clinical outcomes in this population. We undertook an analysis of observational data, collected prospectively as part of International Nutrition Surveys 2007-2013, and extracted data obtained from critically ill patients with head trauma. Our objective was to describe global nutrition support practices in the first 12 days of hospital admission after head trauma, and to explore relationships between energy and protein intake and clinical outcomes. Data are presented as mean (SD), median (IQR), or percentages. Data for 1045 patients from 341 ICUs were analyzed. The age of patients was 44.5 (19.7) years, 78 % were male, and median ICU length of stay was 13.1 (IQR 7.9-21.6) days. Most patients (94 %) were enterally fed but received only 58 % of estimated energy and 53 % of estimated protein requirements. Patients from an ICU with a feeding protocol had greater energy and protein intakes (p <0.001, 0.002 respectively) and were more likely to survive (OR 0.65; 95 % CI 0.42-0.99; p = 0.043) than those without. Energy or protein intakes were not associated with mortality. However, a greater energy and protein deficit was associated with longer times until discharge alive from both ICU and hospital (all p <0.001). Nutritional deficits are commonplace in critically ill head-injured patients and these deficits are associated with a delay to discharge alive.

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Unknown 127 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 26 20%
Student > Bachelor 20 16%
Other 16 13%
Student > Postgraduate 10 8%
Researcher 9 7%
Other 23 18%
Unknown 23 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 53 42%
Nursing and Health Professions 28 22%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 2%
Arts and Humanities 2 2%
Other 7 6%
Unknown 28 22%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 47. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 June 2020.
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