A Review published in Crit_Care summarizes the key themes arising from studies which form the basis of our current understanding of nutritional recovery and rehabilitation in ICU survivors.
]. Standard nutritional care provision on a ward is typically focused on the general hospital patient population and may not meet the needs of post-ICU patients. The effects of critical illness impacts on the nutritional intake of patients through several interrelated issues with the body, sociocultural aspects of eating, and the organization of care.
Examination of survivors’ intake and assimilation of calories and nutrients, and elucidating their nutritional requirements over the recovery trajectory. Further characterization of barriers and facilitators to optimizing a patient’s nutrition status in recovery.Evaluation of the delivery of nutrition care and services.
Garnering a more comprehensive understanding of patient and family perspectives relating to their perceptions of nutrition in ICU recovery. Recognition that nutrition care is an important component of rehabilitation is underappreciated in ICU survivors despite the interplay between nutrition, physical and psychological health, and quality of life. Very few studies testing rehabilitation strategies to mitigate the impact of PICS and improve physical and psychological health outcomes in ICU survivors have incorporated a nutrition component within the rehabilitative strategy.
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