Background Patients with critical illness can lose more than 15% of muscle mass in one
week, and this can have long-term detrimental effects. However, there is currently no …

Quantification and monitoring of lean body mass is an important component of nutrition
assessment to determine nutrition status and muscle loss. The negative impact of reduced …

Personalization of ICU nutrition is essential to future of critical care. Recommendations from
American/European guidelines and practice suggestions incorporating recent literature are …

Sarcopenia and frailty are highly prevalent conditions in older hospitalized patients, which
are associated with a myriad of adverse clinical outcomes. This paper, prepared by a …

Although numerous observational studies associated underfeeding with poor outcome,
recent randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have shown that early full nutritional support …

Nutrition support is an important aspect of the management of critically ill patients. This
review highlights the emerging evidence on critical care nutrition and focuses on the …

Background Patients surviving critical illness develop muscle weakness and impairments in
physical function; however, the relationship between early skeletal muscle alterations and …

Coronavirus pandemic is the most important public health event in the world currently.
Patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a critical state are at risk of …

Background The enteral route is commonly utilised to support the nutritional requirements of
critically ill patients. However, there is paucity of data guiding clinicians regarding the …

Skeletal muscle size is an important factor in assessing adaptation to exercise training and
detraining, athletic performance, age-associated atrophy and mobility decline, clinical …