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Chronic Critical Illness Patients Fail to Respond to Current Evidence-Based Intensive Care Nutrition Secondarily to Persistent Inflammation, Immunosuppression, and Catabolic Syndrome.

Martin D RosenthalTrina BalaZhongkai WangTyler LoftusFrederick Moore
Published in: JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition (2020)
Despite early, adequate, evidence-based ICU nutrition, septic surgical ICU patients who develop CCI exhibit persistent inflammation, immunosuppression, and catabolism with unacceptable long-term morbidity and mortality. Although current evidence-based ICU nutrition may improve short-term ICU outcomes, novel adjuncts are needed to improve long-term outcomes for CCI patients.
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