Intravenous Nutrition Within 24 Hours Doesn’t Improve Survival

(Ivanhoe Newswire) – Gordon S. Doig, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Sydney, Australia, have discovered that the early provision of intravenous nutrition among critically ill patients with contraindications to early use of enteral nutrition (like through a feeding tube) did not result in significant differences in day-60 mortality or shorter ICU stay, compared with standard treatment.
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