TY - JOUR AU - Yang, Wen-Bin AU - Zhang, Wei AU - Zhang, Jian-Fang AU - Yang, Tu-Ying AU - Mo, Zhi-Feng PY - 2019 TI - Effect of supplementary parenteral nutrition on glucose and lipid metabolisms, risk of infection, and prognosis in critically ill patients with low body weight JF - Digestive Medicine Research; Vol 2 (June 2019): Digestive Medicine Research Y2 - 2019 KW - N2 - Background: While enteral nutrition (EN) is the preferred route of nutrition support, and total EN often fails to meet the nutritional needs of patients. A combination of multiple nutritional strategies can reach nutritional goals earlier and improve clinical outcomes. Methods: Totally 108 critically ill patients with a body mass index (BMI) of Results: There were no significant differences in albumin, urea nitrogen, alanine aminotransferase, fasting blood glucose, and triglyceride between the EN group and the SPN group before the nutritional support therapy (P>0.05). After the treatment, the albumin level was significantly higher in SPN group than in EN group (P 0.05). The actual calories and protein intakes in the SPN group were significantly higher than those in the control group (both P 0.05). Conclusions: SPN can improve the caloric and protein intakes, shorten the duration of mechanical ventilation, LOS in ICU, and LOS in hospital, and reduce the incidences of infection complications without apparent impact on blood lipid and sugar profiles or liver/kidney functions. UR - https://dmr.amegroups.org/article/view/5239