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THE Refeeding Syndrome TRIAL
2015 Nutrition
? ICUs
339 patients
RFS: impact of restricting caloric intake (comp o/c ICU LOS, overall surv time, d60 mort)
Clinical Question
In critically ill patients with refeeding syndrome, does restricting caloric intake compared with unrestricted caloric feeding, reduce the composite outcome of ICU length of stay, overall survival time and mortality at day 60?
Critical Appraisal
Key findings
Increased survival, reduced 60d mortality. Fewer resp infections
- Population
- Adult ICU Patients
- Population Details
- hypophataemia
- Intervention Arms
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Enteral Nutrition
Restricted caloric management - Control Arms
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No calorific restriction
- Primary Outcome
- composite outcome of mean number of days alive after ICU discharge
- Secondary Outcomes
- significant mortality improvement
- P Value
- 0.19
Outcome Results
Not recorded