Kate J. Lambell

TL;DR: This narrative review aims to provide a comprehensive synthesis and interpretation of the adult critical care nutrition literature, with a particular focus on continuing practice gaps and areas with new data, to assist clinicians in making practical, yet evidence-based decisions regarding nutrition management during the different stages of critical illness.

TL;DR: In this paper, a literature review was conducted to identify guidelines affiliated with or endorsed by international nutrition societies or dietetic associations which included recommendations for the nutritional management of critically ill adult patients with COVID-19.

TL;DR: There is currently limited high-quality evidence to clearly define the association between energy and/or protein delivery and skeletal muscle mass changes in acute critical illness, and future studies in this area should be adequately powered and detail all sources and quantities of energy and protein delivered to participants.

TL;DR: Ultrasound shows potential for assessing muscularity at ICU admission and the best-performing ultrasound model demonstrated good ability to identify 14 patients with low CT muscle area.

TL;DR: Limited data exist to assess the impact of using IC to inform energy delivery in comparison to predictive equations on hospital mortality, and the association of IC use with other important outcomes, including duration of MV, needs to be further explored before definitive conclusions can be made.