Enteral nutrition is the standard of nutritional support in acute severe pancreatitis.
RCTs that compare any form or amount of (enteral or parenteral) nutrition with tolerating starvation (withholding/delaying nutritional support) in critically ill patients are non-existent [ 51].
For many years total parenteral nutrition was considered the mainstay of nutritional support in patients with severe acute pancreatitis [ 1].
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Nutritional support in corrosive injury patients is traditionally achieved through total parenteral nutrition (TPN) or jejunostomy feeding (JF).
Drugs to improve gastric emptying that may facilitate early enteral nutrition are therefore essential because gastric intolerance is frequently encountered during enteral nutritional support in the critically ill [ 13, 14].
Adequacy of nutritional support in intensive care patients is still a matter of investigation.
Assuring adequate enteral nutritional support in critically ill patients is challenging.
Introduction: Nutritional support in intensive care units (ICUs) has received increasing attention in the last few decades.
We performed a national survey to establish the current practice with respect to nutritional support in Dutch ICUs.
Nutritional support in these patients should be therefore considered, particularly to prevent progressive weight loss, since restoration of lean and fat body mass may not be achievable.
