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Prospective, randomized, controlled trial to determine the effect of early enhanced enteral nutrition on clinical outcome in mechanically ventilated patients suffering head injury.
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Enhanced EN appears to accelerate neurologic recovery and reduces both the incidence of major complications and postinjury inflammatory responses.Abstract:
Objective:To determine the effect of early enhanced enteral nutrition (EN) on clinical outcome of head-injured patients.Design:Prospective, randomized, controlled trial.Setting:Tertiary neurosurgical and trauma center.Patients:Eighty-two patients suffering head injury and requiring mechanical ventilread more
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Surviving sepsis campaign: international guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2012.
R. P. Dellinger,Mitchell M. Levy,Andrew Rhodes,Djillali Annane,Herwig Gerlach,Steven M. Opal,Jonathan E. Sevransky,Charles L. Sprung,Ivor S. Douglas,Roman Jaeschke,Tiffany M. Osborn,Mark E. Nunnally,Konrad Reinhart,Ruth M. Kleinpell,Derek C. Angus,Clifford S. Deutschman,Flávia Ribeiro Machado,Gordon D. Rubenfeld,Steven A R Webb,Richard Beale,Jean Louis Vincent,Rui Moreno +21 more
TL;DR: An update to the “Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines for Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock,” last published in 2008 is provided.
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