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  • Clinical nutrition
  • Gastroenterology

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  • Enteral nutrition is crucial for critically ill patients.
  • Gastrointestinal dysfunction and feeding intolerance complicate early enteral nutrition delivery.
  • Symptoms like gastroparesis, dysmotility, diarrhea, bleeding, and intra-abdominal hypertension are associated with feeding intolerance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To discuss the importance of monitoring nutritional therapy tolerance in critical care.
  • To review clinical trials establishing objective measures for feeding intolerance.
  • To present a tool for guiding enteral nutrition regimen delivery.

Main Methods:

  • Review of clinical trials on enteral nutrition in critical illness.
  • Analysis of objective measures for gastrointestinal dysfunction and feeding intolerance.
  • Evaluation of strategies for managing feeding intolerance and optimizing enteral feeding.

Main Results:

  • Feeding intolerance correlates with adverse outcomes: prolonged mechanical ventilation, longer ICU stays, and increased mortality.
  • While scoring systems have prognostic value, their role in directing therapy requires further clarification.
  • Protocols for monitoring tolerance and providing individualized care optimize early enteral feeding.

Conclusions:

  • Careful selection of monitors and prompt management of intolerance are essential for safe and effective enteral feeding.
  • Protocols that balance monitoring with individualized care enhance early enteral nutrition in critical illness.
  • Objective measures and defined intolerance criteria aid in optimizing nutritional therapy for critically ill patients.