Dr. Mark H. DeLegge just returned from Brussels, Belgium where he attended and helped lead a multi-country conference on nutrition treatments of hospitalized patients. This event was coordinated through Baxter Healthcare and physicians from Poland, Slovakia, Czechoslovakia, England, France, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Bulgaria, Russia and the United States were represented.
A large emphasis of the conference was to examine different practices with regards to nutrition intervention in critically-ill, hospitalized patients. Different practices included early enteral nutrition, supplemental parenteral nutrition, high nitrogen prescribing and the validity of energy:nitrogen ratio in the treatment of hospitalized patients. There were reviews presented regarding these important concepts and a discussion of the variation in practices between countries, often based on historical practice.
Case presentations of actual complicated patients were presented, with input from the group and the leaders surrounding appropriate care and getting to a “best practice.” Dr. DeLegge presented information regarding current practices, new data which is helping to define our future practice and an examination of the gaps in research that need to be filled to allow us to improve our practice. A decision was made to continue this conference in future years.
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