The Year in Critical Care: GI and Nutrition
Part 3 of the 2025 year-end roundup
Guidelines on Red Cell Transfusion (Review)
Anemia is the norm among critically ill patients, who were historically transfused to normal or near-normal hemoglobin levels in the hope of optimizing their physiology and chances for recovery.
Enteral Nutrition in the ICU and Wards: Review
Nutrition is complex, and so it should not be surprising that the data on nutritional support in hospitalized patients represent something of a paradox.
What prevents antibiotic resistance? Antibiotics
Patients receiving mechanical ventilation are particularly vulnerable to hospital-acquired infections, especially by aerobic gram-negative bacteria and yeasts. These pathogens incubate in the stomach and gain resistance after exposure to intermittent antibiotics.
Enteral high protein misses the TARGET
Anorexia is a key feature of serious illness, and one would think this is somehow adaptive. Yet it’s also true that high catabolism and muscle wasting during the acute phase of critical illness are associated with debility and worsened outcomes.
