A new study published in the Critical Care Journal introduced a new protocol “RISEN"–Recovery from ICU via Surveillance, Exercise, and Nutrition" for post-ICU survivors. The RISEN procotol represents a combination of modern performance-enhancing nutrition, anticatabolic/anabolic interventions, and muscle/exercise testing in order to begin to create more “survivors” and fewer victims post ICU...

The usefulness of predictive equations of REE in healthy obese subjects has been analysed in this literature review published in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the British Dietetic Association. Estimates of energy requirements are needed in weight management and are usually determined using prediction equations. The objective of these two systematic reviews was to identify...

The Nutrition in Clinical Practice Journal published an interesting article on the optimum abbreviated period for measurement of indirect calorimetry. This study aimed to determine the acclimation time required to achieve the REE steady state during a 30-minute IC measurement and to define the optimum abbreviated measurement period in the steady state to estimate the REE in healthy young...

A new study appears on the "Current Opinion on Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic care Journal" highlighting the importance of monitoring nutrition and metabolic status of ICU patients.   The purpose of this review is to highlight recent findings on metabolic monitoring and possible beneficial effects of an adequate nutrition therapy, based on indirect calorimetry as the golden standard to...