Are periods of feeding and fasting protective during critical illness? KU Leuven
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To review the mechanisms how intermittent feeding regimens could be beneficial in critically ill patients. RECENT FINDINGS: Large randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have failed to demonstrate consistent benefit of early, enhanced nutritional support to critically ill patients, and some trials even found potential harm. Although speculative, the absence of a clear benefit could be explained by the continuous mode of feeding in ...