[Comment] Nutrition in the ICU: sometimes route does matter

The NUTRIREA-2 trial by Jean Reignier and colleagues1 in The Lancet provides an important piece in the puzzle of intensive-care unit (ICU) nutrition management. This pragmatic multicentre study done at 44 French ICUs randomly assigned patients aged 18 years or older requiring invasive mechanical ventilation and vasopressors (median 0 ·5 μg/kg per min) to receive either enteral nutrition (n=1202) or parenteral nutrition (n=1208), both targeting normocaloric goals (20–25 kcal/kg per day), within 24 h after intubation or ICU admission.
Source: LANCET - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Comment Source Type: research