Clinical Core

What's Cooking in the ICU? Nutritional Considerations in the Critically Ill

Concurrent Session Moderator(s)

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  Sara Hennessy, MD

  UT Southwestern Medical Center
  Dallas, Texas

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.
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  Chet Morrison, MD, FACS, FCCM

  Associate Professor of Surgery and Critical Care
  Central Michigan University School of Medicine
  Saginaw, MI

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.

This session will review updated guideline-based recommendations and ongoing controversies in critical care nutrition therapy. Speakers will review and appraise preclinical and clinical literature and reveal insights into nutrition therapy in unstable ICU patients, protein in ICU patients, and monitoring nutrition delivery in ICU patients.

Presentations:

• Why Is It Called Nutrition Therapy? Beyond the Calorie Reasons to Feed the Gut!
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Sharon Y. Irving, CRNP, MSN, PhD, PNP – University of Pennsylvania
• What's New in Guidelines for Nutrition Therapy in Critical Illness?
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Nilesh Mehta, MD (he/him/his) – Boston Children's Hospital
• Nutrition in the Unstable Critically Ill Patient
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Jayshil Patel, MD, – Medical College of Wisconsin Froedtert Hospital
• Is Protein the Most Important Substrate?
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Yaseen Arabi, MD, FCCP, ATSF – n/a
• What Should I Monitor When I Feed My ICU Patient?
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: David C. Evans, MD – OhioHealth Grant Medical Center