Administration of enteral nutrition and gastrointestinal complications in Covid-19 critical patients in prone position.

Background: The prone position (PP) used in the treatment of critically ill patients infected with SARS-CoV-2, may be a barrier to enteral nutrition (EN). This study aimed to analyze the effectiveness and complications of EN in the PP, as well as clinical outcomes.

Methods: Prospective cohort study with patients in EN and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), on mechanical ventilation (MV), which whom needed or not PP.

Beau's line in COVID-19 after a long ICU stay.

The 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19) overloads hospitalizations in intensive care units (ICUs) around the world and its severe form is a complex disease that is still being understood. Due to the lack of direct evidence in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection, guidelines for nutritional management have been based on evidence from critically ill patients in general. Thus, it is known that intense metabolic stress and malnutrition precede the appearance of Beau's lines.

Basal energy expenditure and diet- induced modifications to thermogenesis in short bowel syndrome.

Background & Aim: The influence of food intake on diet-induced thermogenesis, in the absence of parenteral nutrition, has not been assessed in short bowel syndrome (SBS) patients. We studied basal energy expenditure (BEE) and diet-induced thermogenesis in SBS patients (n=8) and paired healthy adult volunteer controls (n=8).

Methods: Energy expenditure was measured by indirect calorimetry (IC) before and after control diet intake.

Fasting breath hydrogen concentration in short bowel syndrome patients with colon incontinuity before and after antibiotic therapy.

Objective: Nutrition success in short bowel syndrome (SBS) depends on the intake nutrients and the intestinal absorption capacity. An evaluation of energy expenditure and oxidation of substrate can be obtained with indirect calorimetry by measuring O(2) and CO(2) in the respiration. Elevated colonic fermentation can occur in SBS, producing H(2) and CO(2), which can also be eliminated through respiration and as a consequence affect the results from indirect calorimetry.