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The Recommendations for Specialized Nutritional Support in Critically-Ill patients were drafted by the Metabolism and Nutrition Working Group of the Spanish Society of Intensive Care Medicine and Coronary Units (SEMICYUC) in 2005. Given the time elapsed since then, these recommendations have been reviewed and updated as a Consensus Document in collaboration with the Spanish Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (SENPE). The primary aim of these Recommendations was to evaluate the best available scientific evidence for the indications of specialized nutritional and metabolic support in critically-ill patients. The Recommendations have been formulated by an expert panel with broad experience in nutritional and metabolic support in critically-ill patients and were drafted between October 2009 and March 2011. The studies analyzed encompassed metaanalyses, randomized clinical trials, observational studies, systematic reviews and updates relating to critically-ill adults in MEDLINE from 1966 to 2010, EMBASE reviews from 1991 to 2010 and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews up to 2010. The methodological criteria selected were those established in the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network and the Agency for Health Care policy and Research, as well as those of the Jadad Quality Scale. Adjustment for the level of evidence and grade of recommendation was performed following the proposal of the GRADE group (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation Working Group). Sixteen pathological scenarios were selected and each of them was developed by groups of three experts. A feedback system was established with the five members of the Editorial Committee and with the entire Working Group. All discrepancies were discussed and consensus was reached over several meetings, with special emphasis placed on reviewing the levels of evidence and grades of recommendation. The Editorial Committee made the final adjustments before the document was approved by all the members of the Working Group. Finally, the document was submitted to the Scientific Committees of the two Societies participating in the Consensus for final approval. The present Recommendations aim to serve as a guide for clinicians involved in the management and treatment of critically-ill patients and for any specialists interested in the nutritional treatment of hospitalized patients.El Grupo de trabajo de Metabolismo y Nutrición de la Sociedad Española de Medicina Intensiva, Crítica y Unidades Coronarias (SEMICYUC) elaboró en 2005 unas recomendaciones para el soporte nutricional especializado del paciente crítico. Dado el tiempo transcurrido se consideró oportuno la revisión y actualización de dichas recomendaciones, planificándolas como un documento de consenso con la Sociedad Española de Nutrición parenteral y Enteral (SENpE). El objetivo primario planteado para el establecimiento de las recomendaciones fue evaluar la mejor evidencia científica disponible para las indicaciones del soporte nutricional y metabólico especializado en el paciente crítico. Las recomendaciones se han realizado por un panel de expertos con amplia experiencia en el soporte nutricional y metabólico de los pacientes en situación crítica y se han llevado a cabo entre octubre de 2009 y marzo de 2011. Se analizaron metaanálisis, estudios clínicos aleatorizados y observacionales, revisiones sistemáticas y puestas al día referentes a pacientes críticos en edad adulta en MEDLINE de 1966 a 2010, EMBASE reviews de 1991 a 2010 y Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews hasta 2010. Se seleccionaron los criterios metodológicos establecidos en la Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network y los de la Agency for Health Care policy and Research, además de la escala de valoración de la calidad de Jadad, ajustando la gradación de la evidencia y la potencia de las recomendaciones siguiendo la propuesta del Grupo GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation Working Group). Se seleccionaron 16 situaciones patológicas que fueron desarrolladas, cada una, por grupos de 3 expertos, estableciéndose un sistema de feedback con los 5 miembros del Comité de Redacción y con la totalidad del Grupo de trabajo. En diferentes reuniones se discutieron y consensuaron todas las discrepancias, poniéndose especial énfasis en el repaso de los niveles de evidencia y grados de recomendación establecidos. El Comité de Redacción procedió al ajuste final para su presentación y aprobación definitiva por todos los miembros del Grupo de trabajo. Finalmente el documento se presentó a los comités científicos de las dos sociedades participantes del consenso para su aprobación definitiva. Las presentes recomendaciones pretenden servir de guía para los clínicos con responsabilidades en el manejo y tratamiento de los pacientes críticos y para todos los especialistas interesados en el tratamiento nutricional del paciente hospitalizado.

La utilización de la nutrición enteral (NE) en el paciente crítico hace necesario evaluar su eficacia e influencia en la consecución de los requerimientos pautados. La NE administrada a nivel gástrico tiene una tasa alta de complicaciones, particularmente aumento de residuo, que conlleva una infranutrición. La utilización del intestino delgado (yeyuno), puede conseguir un aumento del volumen administrado. Pero para ello hay tres aspectos que influyen directamente en su utilización: la vía de acceso intestinal, la capacidad motora y su capacidad absortiva y función de barrera. La elección de la vía de acceso al tubo digestivo debe realizarse tras valoración de la patología de base y el tiempo previsto de duración de la NE. Si es superior a 4-6 semanas se procederá a acceso definitivo a través de una técnica invasiva y ostomía (yeyunostomía radiológica, endoscópica o quirúrgica) y si es inferior a 4-6 semanas, técnica no invasiva o transnasal (nasoduodenal o nasoyeyunal) con endoscopia, fluoroscopia o ecografía. Se ha constatado que, mediante protocolización de los procedimientos y experiencia, la nutrición yeyunal puede conseguir un aumento de los requerimientos administrados al paciente crítico bajo ventilación mecánica respecto de la nutrición gástrica, aunque no son claros los beneficios en cuanto a la reducción de complicaciones infecciosas, estancia y mortalidad, por lo que su uso debe reservarse para aquellos casos en los que está documentado una clara intolerancia gástrica. Mediante técnica manométrica o con el test de absorción de acetaminofeno, se ha constatado que el 50% de los pacientes críticos con ventilación mecánica tienen, a nivel gástrico, hipomotilidad antral, disminución de los complejos motores migratorios y del vaciamiento gástrico, lo que dificulta considerablemente la nutrición. En condiciones normales, durante el ayuno existen unas contracciones motoras regulares o complejo motor migratorio interdigestivo cuyo patrón no es favorable a la absorción de nutrientes por ser altamente propulsivo, por lo que en la fase nutriente cambia al patrón postprandial, de actividad contráctil irregular y continua, sin frentes de actividad, mucho más adaptado a la absorción de nutrientes. En el paciente crítico se pierde este esquema propulsivo normal, desapareciendo con frecuencia el patrón postprandial y persistiendo el interdigestivo, lo que dificulta o impide la nutrición enteral. Son varios los factores que influyen en ese cambio, principalmente la patología de base, sepsis, TCE, ventilación mecánica, sedación y miorelajación. La utilización de agentes procinéticos, como la metoclopramida, puede, al menos en teoría, modificar la alteración de la motilidad y facilitar la correcta administración de los requerimientos pautados. Entre otras, el tracto gastrointestinal (TGI) desempeña una función de "barrera" entre los medios interno y externo que impide la entrada a sangre de bacterias, agentes antigénicos y tóxicos. Su fracaso se caracteriza por absorción disminuida de nutrientes, alteración de la respuesta inmunológica intestinal y aumento de la permeabilidad intestinal (PI). Entre las hipótesis que pretenden explicar la infección sistémica y el fracaso multiorgánico (FMO) figura precisamente el fallo en la integridad anatómica y funcional de la mucosa intestinal. Se ha constatado una alteración de dicha mucosa con aumento de la PI en patologías como quemados, politraumatismos, cirugía mayor, trasplante de células hemopoyéticas y sepsis, aunque no se ha establecido con claridad su relación con la traslocación bacteriana. Ante las evidencias que implican al TGI en el FMO, los métodos de monitorización dirigidos a corregir precozmente la hipopefusión esplácnica nos orientan sobre los mecanismos implicados en el aumento de la PI.The use of enteral nutrition (EN) in the critically-ill patient makes necessary to evaluate its effectiveness and impact on achieving the target requirements. Gastrically administered EN has a high complication rate, especially increased residue that leads to hyponutrition. The use of the small bowel (jejunum) may achieve greater administered volume, although there are three aspects that directly influence on its use: intestinal access route, motility and absorptive capability, and barrier function. The selection of the access route to the digestive tube has to be done after evaluating the underlying disease and predicted duration of EN. If it is greater than 4-6 weeks a definitive access will be performed through an invasive technique of ostomy (radiologic, endoscopic or surgical jejunostomy) and if it is shorter than 4-6 weeks, an endoscopic, fluoroscopic or ultrasonographic non-invasive or transnasal technique (naso-duodenal, or nasojejunal) will be used. By protocoling procedures and experiences, it has been shown that jejunal nutrition may achieve an increase in the amount of requirements administerd to critically-ill patients with mechanical ventilation as compared to gastric feeding, although the benefits with regards to reducing the number of infectious complications, hospital stay and mortality are not so clear-cut, so that it should be left to those cases in which gastric feeding has been clearly documented. By using the manometrich technique or the acetaminophen absorption tests it has been shown that 50% of critically-ill patients with mechanical ventilation have gastric antral hypomotility with decreased migratory motor complexes and gastric voiding, which considerably hampers nutrition. Under normal circumstances, during fasting, there are regular motor contractions, or an inter-digestive migratory motor complex which pattern prevents nutrient absorption because of being highly propulsive, so that during the nutrient phase, this pattern changes into the postprandial pattern with an irregular and continuous contraction activity, with no activity centers, which is much more adapted to nutrient absorption. In critically-ill patients, this normal propulsive pattern is lost, the postprandial pattern is frequently lost, and the inter-digestive pattern remains, which prevents enteral feeding. There are several factors that have an impact on this change, mainly the underlying disease, sepsis, head trauma, mechanical ventilation, sedation, and muscle relaxation. The use of pro-kinetic agents such as metoclopramide may, at least theoretically, modify motility impainment and facilitate the correct administration of prescribed requirements. Among other functions, the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) has a barrier function between inner and outer media, which prevents bacteria, antigenic agents, and toxicants from entering the blood. Its failure is characterized by decreased nutrient absorption, impaired intestinal immunological response and increased intestinal permeability (IP). Among the hypothesis trying to explain systemic infection and multiorgan failure (MOF), there is precisely anatomical and functional integrity of the intestinal mucosa. Mucosal impairment with increased IP has been shown in burn patients, polytrauma, major surgery, hematopoietic cell transplantation, and sepsis, although its relationship with bacterial translocation has not clearly been established. Before the evidences that link the GIT with MOF, the monitoring methods aimed at early correction of splaenic hypoperfusion focus on the mechanisms implicated in increased IP.

Objetivo: Determinar la relación entre aditivar dipéptidos de glutamina a la nutrición parenteral (NP) y la morbi-mortalidad en paciente crítico. Materiales y métodos: Estudio retrospectivo de casos y controles. Como casos se recogieron pacientes a los que se administró NP suplementada con 2 g de nitrógeno (glutamina) durante el período 2001-2004. Los controles fueron pacientes con NP sin glutamina recogidos durante el 2000. Todos los pacientes incluidos presentaban infección definida como la presencia de un foco infeccioso más 2 de los siguientes criterios: leucocitos > 12.000 x 106/L, fiebre > 38 ºC, frecuencia cardíaca 90 latidos/minuto o PCO2 < 31 mm Hg. Además, tenían niveles plasmáticos de prealbúmina < 15 g/L o albúmina < 25 g/L, PCR > 100 mg/L o fístula. Se excluyeron los pacientes con insuficiencia renal, diálisis previa, encefalopatía hepática o dieta mixta. Las variables de morbi-mortalidad registradas fueron: hiperglucemia, fracaso renal, días con NP, días en UCI, días de hospitalización y mortalidad. Resultados: Se incluyeron 202 pacientes (75 casos y 127 controles). En el estudio univariante previo no aparecieron diferencias significativas para las variables independientes entre los 2 grupos. En el estudio multivariante, la aditivación de glutamina se asoció significativamente a menor incidencia de fracaso renal (OR:0,28; IC:0,08-1,00), menor hiperglucemia (OR:0,38; IC:0,19-0,75), menos días de hospitalización (OR:0,64; IC: 0,44-0,92) y menos días en UCI (OR:0,64; IC: 0,45-0,93). Para la variable exitus, la adición de glutamina mostró tendencia a la inclusión en el modelo (p = 0,097). En cuanto a los días con NP la variable glutamina no se incluyó en modelo. Conclusión: En pacientes críticos, la adición de glutamina a la NP conlleva una recuperación más rápida y menor incidencia de hiperglucemia y fracaso renal. Dados estos resultados, la adición de glutamina a las NP de determinados pacientes es un recurso efectivo para acelerar su recuperación y evitar determinadas complicaciones.Objetive: To determine the relationship between adding glutamine dipeptides to parenteral nutrition (PN) and morbimortality in the critically ill patient. Material and methods: Case-control retrospective study. The cases were patients to whom PN supplemented with 2 g of nitrogen (glutamine) was administered during the period 2001-2004. Controls were patients with PN without glutamine, collected during the year 2000. All included patients had infection defined as the presence of an infectious site plus more than two of the following criteria: leucocytes > 12.000 x 106/L, fever > 38 ºC, heart rate > 90 bmp, or PCO2 < 31 mmHg. Besides, they had to have prealbumin plasma levels < 15 g/L or albumin levels < 25 g/L, and CRP > 100 mg/L or a fistula. Patients with renal failure, previous dialysis, hepatic encephalopathy, or mixed diet were excluded from the study. Morbimortality variables collected were: hyperglycemia, renal failure, days on PN, days in the ICU, hospitalization days, and mortality. Results: Two hundred and two patients (75 cases and 127 controls) were included. In the previous univariate analysis no significant differences appeared for independent variables between both groups. In the multivariate analysis, glutamine addition was significantly associated to lower renal failure incidence (OR: 0.28; CI: 0.08- 1.00), lower hyperglycemia (OR: 0.38; CI: 0.19-0.75), less hospitalization days (OR: 0.64; CI: 0.44-0.92), and fewer days in the ICU (OR: 0.64; CI: 0.45-0.93). For the variable "exitus", glutamine addition showed a trend towards inclusion into the model (p = 0.097). About the days on PN, the variable glutamine was not included into the model. Conclusion: In critically ill patients, adding glutamine to PN leads to quicker recovery and lower incidence of hyperglycemia and renal failure. In view of these results, adding glutamine to PN of particular patients is an effective measure to speed up their recovery and avoid certain complications.

The use of enteral nutrition (EN) in the critically-ill patient makes necessary to evaluate its effectiveness and impact on achieving the target requirements. Gastrically administered EN has a high complication rate, especially increased residue that leads to hyponutrition. The use of the small bowel (jejunum) may achieve greater administered volume, although there are three aspects that directly influence on its use: intestinal access route, motility and absorptive capability, and barrier function. The selection of the access route to the digestive tube has to be done after evaluating the underlying disease and predicted duration of EN. If it is greater than 4-6 weeks a definitive access will be performed through an invasive technique of ostomy (radiologic, endoscopic or surgical jejunostomy) and if it is shorter than 4-6 weeks, an endoscopic, fluoroscopic or ultrasonographic non-invasive or transnasal technique (naso-duodenal, or nasojejunal) will be used. By protocoling procedures and experiences, it has been shown that jejunal nutrition may achieve an increase in the amount of requirements administerd to critically-ill patients with mechanical ventilation as compared to gastric feeding, although the benefits with regards to reducing the number of infectious complications, hospital stay and mortality are not so clear-cut, so that it should be left to those cases in which gastric feeding has been clearly documented. By using the manometrich technique or the acetaminophen absorption tests it has been shown that 50% of critically-ill patients with mechanical ventilation have gastric antral hypomotility with decreased migratory motor complexes and gastric voiding, which considerably hampers nutrition. Under normal circumstances, during fasting, there are regular motor contractions, or an inter-digestive migratory motor complex which pattern prevents nutrient absorption because of being highly propulsive, so that during the nutrient phase, this pattern changes into the postprandial pattern with an irregular and continuous contraction activity, with no activity centers, which is much more adapted to nutrient absorption. In critically-ill patients, this normal propulsive pattern is lost, the postprandial pattern is frequently lost, and the inter-digestive pattern remains, which prevents enteral feeding. There are several factors that have an impact on this change, mainly the underlying disease, sepsis, head trauma, mechanical ventilation, sedation, and muscle relaxation. The use of pro-kinetic agents such as metoclopramide may, at least theoretically, modify motility impainment and facilitate the correct administration of prescribed requirements. Among other functions, the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) has a barrier function between inner and outer media, which prevents bacteria, antigenic agents, and toxicants from entering the blood. Its failure is characterized by decreased nutrient absorption, impaired intestinal immunological response and increased intestinal permeability (IP). Among the hypothesis trying to explain systemic infection and multiorgan failure (MOF), there is precisely anatomical and functional integrity of the intestinal mucosa. Mucosal impairment with increased IP has been shown in burn patients, polytrauma, major surgery, hematopoietic cell transplantation, and sepsis, although its relationship with bacterial translocation has not clearly been established. Before the evidences that link the GIT with MOF, the monitoring methods aimed at early correction of splaenic hypoperfusion focus on the mechanisms implicated in increased IP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To determine the relationship between adding glutamine dipeptides to parenteral nutrition (PN) and morbimortality in the critically ill patient. Material and methods: Case-control retrospective study. The cases were patients to whom PN supplemented with 2 g of nitrogen (glutamine) was administered during the period 2001-2004. Controls were patients with PN without glutamine, collected during the year 2000. All included patients had infection defined as the presence of an infectious site plus more than two of the following criteria: leucocytes > 12.000 x 106/L, fever > 38 ° C, heart rate > 90 bmp, or PCO2 < 31 mmHg. Besides, they had to have prealbumin plasma levels < 15 g/L or albumin levels < 25 g/L, and CRP > 100 mg/L or a fistula. Patients with renal failure, previous dialysis, hepatic encephalopathy, or mixed diet were excluded from the study. Morbimortality variables collected were: hyperglycemia, renal failure, days on PN, days in the ICU, hospitalization days, and mortality. Results: Two hundred and two patients (75 cases and 127 controls) were included. In the previous univariate analysis no significant differences appeared for independent variables between both groups. In the multivariate analysis, glutamine addition was significantly associated to lower renal failure incidence (OR: 0.28; Ch 0.08-1.00), lower hyperglycemia (OR: 0.38; CI: 0.19-0.75), less hospitalization days (OR: 0.64; CI: 0.44-0.92), and fewer days in the ICU (OR: 0.64; CI: 0.45-0.93). For the variable "exitus", glutamine addition showed a trend towards inclusion into the model (p = 0.097). About the days on PN, the variable glutamine was not included into the model. Conclusions: In critically ill patients, adding glutamine to PN leads to quicker recovery and lower incidence of hyperglycemia and renal failure. In view of these results, adding glutamine to PN of particular patients is an effective measure to speed up their recovery and avoid certain complications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]