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  1. Comparing bedside and CT-derived muscle mass assessment methodologies at Intensive Care Unit admission: a critical step towards bedside detection of reduced muscle mass
  2. Implementing a sepsis prediction score in out-of-hours primary care: Feasibility and acceptability study
  3. Integrating Downstream Mediators of Omega-3 Fatty Acids into Enteral Nutrition for Improved Patient Care: An Expert Panel Consensus
  4. Exploring the Safety of Prolonging the Hang Time of Enteral Feeding Systems in the Intensive Care Unit
  5. The impact of an individually tailored, stepwise nutrition protocol on energy and protein adequacy in post-ICU patients: The PROSPECT-II observational cohort study
  6. Feasibility of whey protein powder supplementation in patients who are neurocritically ill: A post hoc analysis of a pilot randomized controlled trial
  7. Dietary Food Record Charts and digital photography effectively estimate hospital meal consumption
  8. Parenteral calcium administration and outcomes in critically ill patients with hypocalcemia: A retrospective cohort study
  9. Feasibility challenges in protein supplementation research: Insights from the convalescence of functional outcomes after intensive care unit stay in a Randomised Controlled Trial
  10. Energy and protein nutrition adequacy in general wards among intensive care unit survivors: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
  11. Vitamin K: a potential missing link in critical illness–a scoping review
  12. Association between first-week propofol administration and long-term outcomes of critically ill mechanically ventilated patients: A retrospective cohort study
  13. Response to Letter to the Editor Clinical Nutrition
  14. Predicting sepsis-related mortality and ICU admissions from telephone triage information of patients presenting to out-of-hours GP cooperatives with acute infections: A cohort study of linked routine care databases
  15. Individualised energy and protein targets achieved during intensive care admission are associated with lower mortality in mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients: The COFEED-19 study
  16. Parenteral calcium administration and outcomes of critically ill patients with hypocalcemia: a retrospective cohort study
  17. Macronutrient intake and outcomes of ICU patients with refeeding hypophosphatemia
  18. The effect of an intervention of porcine protein versus maltodextrin supplement on CONvalescence of FUnCtional outcomes after IcU Stay (CONFUCIUS): Study protocol for a randomized controlled, single-center, double-blind trial
  19. Prospective observational cohort study of reached protein and energy targets in general wards during the post-intensive care period: The PROSPECT-I study
  20. Commentary on “Guidelines for the provision of nutrition support therapy in the adult critically ill patient: The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition”
  21. Comparison of the Beacon and Quark indirect calorimetry devices to measure resting energy expenditure in ventilated ICU patients
  22. Let food be thy medicine ...
  23. A guide to enteral nutrition in intensive care units: 10 expert tips for the daily practice
  24. Bioelectric impedance body composition and phase angle in relation to 90-day adverse outcome in hospitalized COVID-19 ward and ICU patients: The prospective BIAC-19 study
  25. Physical recovery of COVID‐19 pneumosepsis intensive care survivors compared with non‐COVID pneumosepsis intensive care survivors during post–intensive care hospitalization: The RECOVID retrospective cohort study
  26. Evaluation of the Initial General Ward Early Warning Score and ICU Admission, Hospital Length of Stay and Mortality
  27. Video-assisted placement of enteral feeding tubes using the Integrated Real-Time Imaging System (IRIS)-technology in critically ill patients
  28. Case series of four secondary mucormycosis infections in COVID-19 patients, the Netherlands, December 2020 to May 2021
  29. Micronutrient deficiencies in critical illness
  30. Bioelectric impedance analysis for body composition measurement and other potential clinical applications in critical illness
  31. Association of bioelectric impedance analysis body composition and disease severity in COVID-19 hospital ward and ICU patients: The BIAC-19 study
  32. Energy expenditure and indirect calorimetry in critical illness and convalescence: current evidence and practical considerations
  33. Electrolyte disorders during the initiation of nutrition therapy in the ICU
  34. Resting energy expenditure by indirect calorimetry versus the ventilator-VCO2 derived method in critically ill patients: The DREAM-VCO2 prospective comparative study
  35. Computer‐Assisted Prescription: The Future of Nutrition Care?
  36. Mitochondrial dysfunction in critical illness during acute metabolic stress and convalescence: consequences for nutrition therapy
  37. Nutritional therapy in patients with sepsis: is less really more?
  38. The effect of cisatracurium infusion on the energy expenditure of critically ill patients: an observational cohort study
  39. Nutrition therapy and critical illness: practical guidance for the ICU, post-ICU, and long-term convalescence phases
  40. Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Critical Illness: Implications for Nutritional Therapy
  41. The Effect of Nutrition on Early Stress-Induced Hyperglycemia, Serum Insulin Levels, and Exogenous Insulin Administration in Critically Ill Patients With Septic Shock: A Prospective Observational Study
  42. Metabolic support in the critically ill: a consensus of 19
  43. Mid-arm circumference method is invalid to estimate the body weight of elderly Emergency Department patients in the Netherlands
  44. Primum non nocere in early nutrition therapy during critical illness: Balancing the pros and cons of early very high protein administration
  45. Metabolic effects of beta-blockers in critically ill patients: A retrospective cohort study
  46. Association of PROtein and CAloric Intake and Clinical Outcomes in Adult SEPTic and Non‐Septic ICU Patients on Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation: The PROCASEPT Retrospective Study
  47. Feeding mitochondria: Potential role of nutritional components to improve critical illness convalescence
  48. Effect of a Recombinant Human Soluble Thrombomodulin on Mortality in Patients With Sepsis-Associated Coagulopathy
  49. A multicenter, randomized, double-blind study of ulimorelin and metoclopramide in the treatment of critically ill patients with enteral feeding intolerance: PROMOTE trial
  50. Monitoring nutrition in the ICU
  51. Timing of PROTein INtake and clinical outcomes of adult critically ill patients on prolonged mechanical VENTilation: The PROTINVENT retrospective study
  52. Current evidence on ω-3 fatty acids in enteral nutrition in the critically ill: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  53. ESPEN guideline on clinical nutrition in the intensive care unit
  54. Response to Gunst and Casaer on the letter to the editor “Is the protein intake saturated at doses recommended by the feeding guidelines for critically ill patients?”
  55. Data on effects, tolerability and safety of Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Enteral Nutrition in the Critically ill
  56. How to improve worldwide early enteral nutrition performance in intensive care units?
  57. Reply-Letter to the Editor – Timing of PROTein INtake and clinical outcomes of adult critically ill patients on prolonged mechanical VENTilation: The PROTINVENT retrospective study
  58. Impact of caloric intake in critically ill patients with, and without, refeeding syndrome: A retrospective study
  59. Management of sepsis in out-of-hours primary care: a retrospective study of patients admitted to the intensive care unit
  60. Surgical ward nurses’ responses to worry: An observational descriptive study
  61. Changing paradigms in metabolic support and nutrition therapy during critical illness
  62. Refeeding syndrome: relevance for the critically ill patient
  63. Optimal timing, dose and route of early nutrition therapy in critical illness and shock: the quest for the Holy Grail
  64. Pre–post evaluation of effects of a titanium dioxide coating on environmental contamination of an intensive care unit: the TITANIC study
  65. Very high intact-protein formula successfully provides protein intake according to nutritional recommendations in overweight critically ill patients: a double-blind randomized trial
  66. The safety and efficacy of nicotine replacement therapy in the intensive care unit: a randomised controlled pilot study
  67. Associations of hyperosmolar medications administered via nasogastric or nasoduodenal tubes and feeding adequacy, food intolerance and gastrointestinal complications amongst critically ill patients: A retrospective study
  68. An observational study assessing high dose opioid prescribing and associated adrenal insufficiency
  69. Nutrition in the ICU
  70. Is refeeding syndrome relevant for critically ill patients?
  71. Prehospital antibiotics in the ambulance for sepsis: a multicentre, open label, randomised trial
  72. Nutritional assessment of critically ill patients: validation of the modified NUTRIC score
  73. Hydrolysed protein enteral nutrition is not superior to polymeric whole protein feeding with regard to gastrointestinal feeding tolerance and feeding adequacy
  74. Parenteral glutamine should not be routinely used in adult critically ill patients
  75. Diagnostic accuracy of novel serological biomarkers to detect acute mesenteric ischemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  76. The intensive care medicine research agenda in nutrition and metabolism
  77. Nutrition in the critically ill patient
  78. Is Less Really More with Respect to Permissive Feeding in Critical Illness?
  79. Capturing early signs of deterioration: the dutch-early-nurse-worry-indicator-score and its value in the Rapid Response System
  80. Early enteral nutrition in critically ill patients: ESICM clinical practice guidelines
  81. Glutamine, fish oil and antioxidants in critical illness: MetaPlus trial post hoc safety analysis
  82. In response to “Supplemental protein and energy likely account for multi-ingredient supplementation in mitigating morbidity and mortality in compromised elderly malnourished patients”
  83. Phlebitis as a consequence of peripheral intravenous administration of cisatracurium besylate in critically ill patients
  84. Do we need new prokinetics to reduce enteral feeding intolerance during critical illness?
  85. Relevance of non-nutritional calories in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients
  86. Should We Increase Protein Delivery During Critical Illness?
  87. Antioxidant Vitamins and Trace Elements in Critical Illness
  88. Nurses’ ‘worry’ as predictor of deteriorating surgical ward patients: A prospective cohort study of the Dutch-Early-Nurse-Worry-Indicator-Score
  89. Switching From Intermittent to Continuous Infusion of Vancomycin in Critically Ill Patients
  90. Noninvasive and invasive positive pressure ventilation for acute respiratory failure in critically ill patients: a comparative cohort study
  91. Enteral versus parenteral nutrition in critically ill patients: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
  92. Vitamin D deficiency in the critically ill
  93. Effects of implementation of a computerized nutritional protocol in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients: A single-centre before and after study
  94. Authors’ Response to Vermeulen et al
  95. Dose Reduction of Caspofungin in Intensive Care Unit Patients with Child Pugh B Will Result in Suboptimal Exposure
  96. Nutritional support and refeeding syndrome in critical illness
  97. Enteral glutamine supplementation in critically ill patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  98. Nurses’ worry or concern and early recognition of deteriorating patients on general wards in acute care hospitals: a systematic review
  99. Metabolic and nutritional support of critically ill patients: consensus and controversies
  100. Permissive Underfeeding or Standard Enteral Feeding in Critical Illness
  101. Chlorhexidine Bathing and Infections in Critically Ill Patients
  102. No Significant Reduction in Antibiotic Treatment Using a Procalcitonin Algorithm with Low Cutoff Value in the Intensive Care Unit?
  103. Glutamine and antioxidants
  104. Consequences of the REDOXS and METAPLUS Trials
  105. Still a Place for Metoclopramide as a Prokinetic Drug in Critically Ill Patients?
  106. In critical illness, high-protein enteral nutrition with immune-modulating nutrients did not reduce infections
  107. Standard vs Enriched High Protein Enteral Nutrition in the ICU—Reply
  108. The postintensive care syndrome of survivors of critical illness and their families
  109. Timing of (supplemental) parenteral nutrition in critically ill patients: a systematic review
  110. Should we stop prescribing metoclopramide as a prokinetic drug in critically ill patients?
  111. Design and prospective validation of a dosing instrument for continuous infusion of vancomycin: a within-population approach
  112. Hypothermia or normothermia after cardiac arrest? Do not throw the baby out with the bath water?
  113. Pharmacokinetics of caspofungin in ICU patients
  114. High-Protein Enteral Nutrition Enriched With Immune-Modulating Nutrients vs Standard High-Protein Enteral Nutrition and Nosocomial Infections in the ICU
  115. Guideline Bundles Adherence and Mortality in Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock
  116. The Golden Hour of Antibiotic Administration in Severe Sepsis
  117. Glutamine supplementation in the critically ill: friend or foe?
  118. Prolonged Infusion of Carbapenems in Critically Ill Patients
  119. How is intensive care reimbursed? A review of eight European countries
  120. Nutrition Barriers in Abdominal Aortic Surgery
  121. Real-time polymerase chain reaction to evaluate antibiotic appropriateness
  122. Drotrecogin Alfa (Activated) in Adults with Septic Shock
  123. Nutritional support in critically ill patients: Can we have the cake and the topping too?*
  124. Hydrogen peroxide vapor decontamination of an intensive care unit to remove environmental reservoirs of multidrug-resistant gram-negative rods during an outbreak
  125. Unravelling post-ICU mortality: predictors and causes of death
  126. Haemodynamic consequences of mild therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest
  127. Blowing hot and cold? Skin counter warming to prevent shivering during therapeutic cooling*
  128. The jury is still out on continuous infusion of β-lactam antibiotics in intensive care patients*
  129. Posttraumatic stress disorder–related symptoms after critical care: The role of sedation and family
  130. Progressive respiratory distress due to neck mass
  131. Clinical validation of the non-invasive cardiac output monitor USCOM-1A in critically ill patients
  132. Remifentanil-propofol analgo-sedation shortens duration of ventilation and length of ICU stay compared to a conventional regimen: a centre randomised, cross-over, open-label study in the Netherlands
  133. Ciprofloxacin pharmacokinetics in critically ill patients: A prospective cohort study
  134. Unexpected fatal neurological deterioration after successful cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and therapeutic hypothermia
  135. Negative pressure pulmonary oedema
  136. Pleural Enterococcus faecalis Empyema: An Unusual Case
  137. Severe local vancomycin induced skin necrosis
  138. P1692 Environmental decontamination of an intensive care unit to control outbreaks of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative rods using hydrogen peroxide vapour
  139. Unexpected tracheal compression detected after immediate extubation failure
  140. Outbreak of Acinetobacter genomic species 3 in a Dutch intensive care unit
  141. Continuous vs. intermittent cefotaxime administration in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and respiratory tract infections: pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics, bacterial susceptibility and clinical efficacy
  142. Preventing nosocomial sinusitis in the ICU: comment on article by Pneumatikos et al.
  143. Reliable New High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic Method for the Determination of Ciprofloxacin in Human Serum
  144. Hospital-acquired sinusitis is a common cause of fever of unknown origin in orotracheally intubated critically ill patients
  145. Early induction of hypothermia: Will sooner be better?*
  146. Free Cortisol and Critically Ill Patients
  147. Organizational Changes in a Single Intensive Care Unit Affect Benchmarking
  148. Induced Hypothermia in Traumatic Brain Injury: Effective if Properly Employed
  149. Importance of nondrug costs of intravenous antibiotic therapy
  150. The importance of magnesium in critically ill patients: a role in mitigating neurological injury and in the prevention of vasospasms
  151. Family Satisfaction with Intensive Care Unit Care: Influenced by Workload, Staffing, and Patient Selection?
  152. Legal implications of clinical practice guidelines
  153. Infusion of ultrafiltrate from endotoxemic pigs depresses myocardial performance in normal pigs