Estimating the time point for nutritional failure in patients suffering from acute brain attacks in the intensive care unit.

Background: Severe brain attack patients demonstrate hypermetabolic state and gastrointestinal dysfunction, leading to faster onset of nutritional failure.

Aim: To estimate the time point where the development of nutritional failure is more probable among patients with acute brain attacks in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Methods: Direct bedside observation for selected nutritional parameters was performed.