Critically ill patients who did not undergo routine gastric volume monitoring did not have a higher risk for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) than patients who were monitored, a new study shows.

Gut Bacteria Offers Clues About Risk of Developing T2DM For adults requiring invasive mechanical ventilation, enteral nutrition management without residual gastric volume monitoring is not inferior to ...

To avoid adverse outcomes related to malnutrition for critically ill patients in the intensive care unit, providers can look to a new nutrition bundle that aims to ensure these patients are receiving ...

At the time of radiographic confirmation of tube site, a frequent recommendation is to mark the tube at the point where it exits the nose or mouth (Guenter & Silkroski, 2001; Metheny & Titler, 2001).

Critically ill patients requiring vital organ support in the intensive care unit (ICU) commonly have anorexia and may be unable to feed volitionally by mouth for periods ranging from days to months.

The advent of total parenteral nutrition in the late 1960s meant that no situation remained in which a patient could not be fed. Unfortunately, total parenteral nutrition was complicated by serious ...

Table 1 Analyses and number of patients per analysis performed on gastric residual fluid aspirates and fecal samples collected from neonates (24–36 wk) Full size table Cell line and adult cells used ...