Corporate Symposium: Fueling the Critically Ill: Balancing Feeding Challenges and Individualized Nutrition

Learning Objectives:

• Familiarize the audience with historical feeding challenges in the ICU, summarize key findings from previous feeding and protein research, and introduce a patient case to set the context for the presentation.
• Present evidence on feeding goals, including an overview of PE vs MREE and recent protein literature, and provide guidance for determining energy and protein requirements based on the latest research.
• Review literature on methods to achieve target energy and protein goals, focusing on enteral feeding and the appropriate use of early PN when enteral feeding is insufficient.
• Offer recommendations for achieving goal energy and protein targets over several days, adjusting as necessary to ensure the patient’s nutritional needs are met.

This is a non-promotional education program not accredited for Continuing Education.