NUTRITION IN CRITICALLY ILL Katarina Zadrazilova University Hospital Brno May 2011 Overview •Nutrients and energetic requirements •Indications for nutritional support •Route of nutrition •Enteral and parenteral nutrition •Complications of nutritional support Is it important ? •Up to 60 % of patients in hospital are either malnourished or at risk of becoming malnourished • •Leads to increased hospital days ▫Number of complications ▫Mortality There is now evidence that nutritional support can reduce length of stay and the incidence of complications in patents in intensive care. Is it important ? •Inadequate nutrition of critically ill patients leads to muscle wasting that would lead to worse prognosis, increased complications and at the end worse survival rate Malnutrition •Deficiency either of total energy or of protein (or other nutrients) leads to a reduction in body cell mass and organ dysfunction • •As the result of ▫Inadequate intake ▫Reduced absorption ▫Or increased requirements Energy conversion waste Nutrients - fuel •Lipid •Protein •Carbohydrates Nutritional requirements •Around 25 kcal/kg/day •Macronutrients : protein, lipid and carbohydrate provides the energy requirements •Micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) ▫Cofactors for enzymes ▫Vitamins - organic compounds ▫Trace elements - ions Nutritional requirements •Harris Benedict Equation - basal metabolic rate •In kcal/day. • •For ♂: BMR = 13.75 x weight (kg) + 5 x height (cm) – 6.78 x age (years) + 66 • •For ♀: BMR = 9.56 x weight (kg) + 1.85 x height (cms) – 4.68 x age (years) + 655 Carbohydrates •EssentiaL fuel for CNS •Provides 3.75 kcal/g in vivo •2 – 2,5 g/kg BW/day - max 250 g/day •Around 70% of the nonprotein calories •Need for regular glycaemia checks – stormy changes of sugar metabolism in criticaly ill •Many patients will need cont. insulin • Lipids • •Critically ill have difficulties • in mobilizing their own lipids •Provides 9.3 kcal/g – highly energetic •Calories from lipid should be limited to 40% of total calories •Source of essential fatty acids – linolenic acid (an omega-3 fatty acid) and linoleic acid (an • omega-6 fatty acid) • Lipids •Omega 6 (arachidonic acid ) have anti-inflammatory and procoagulant effect • •Metabolites of Omega 3 lipids improve cellular, anti-carcinogenic, anti-inflammatory and vasodilating and anti-agregation effects • Lipids - contraindications •Shock •Serious coagulation disorders and haemorrhagic conditions •Severe hyperlipaemia •Fat embolism • Proteins •Around 1.5 g/kg/day •Provides 5.3 kcal/g •High urinary Nitrogen = protein breakdown •Positive nitrogen balance = enough calories to spare own proteins from being degraded •Choice of amino-acids is very individual with monitoring urea levels in plasma and urine • Vitamins •12 essential •Antioxidant vitamins ▫Vitamin C and E •B1 – thiamine ▫Deficiency presents with –Cardiac dysfunction – beri beri –Wernicke’s encefalopathy –Lactic acidosis –Peripheral neuropathy – Essential trace elements •Substance that is present in the body in less then 50 g/g of body tissue • •Iron •Selenium • Assessment of nutritional status •? • •Skin fold thickness •Albumin, haemoglobin, transferrin •BMI • •DO NOT REFLECT ACUTE CHANGE IN NUTRITIONAL STATUS Assessment of nutritional status •Targeted history and examination • •1. Weight change •2. Changes in food intake •3. Gastrointestinal symptoms - nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and anorexia •4. Functional impairment – muscle wasting oedema, ascites Aim of nutritional support •Correct and prevent malnutrition • •Optimize patient’s metabolic status • •Decrease morbidity and shorten recovery Nutritional support •I. Indications – meeting criteria for nutritional support •II. Setting of actual energetic requirements •III. Route of nutrition ▫Oral ▫Enteral ▫Parenteral • • Indications for nutritional support •Malnutrition •Burns, sepsis, polytrauma, MOF, etc •Pre-op preparation and post-op care •GI impairment - pankreatitis, Morbus Crohn, colitis ulcerosa • Indications for nutritional support •Neurologic indications – myastenia, cerebrovascular disease •Aktino and chemo therapy •Geriatric patients • Route of nutrition •Oral •Enteral - via a tube directly into gastrointestinal tract •Parenteral - intravenous (peripheral or central vein) • •Depletion of nutrients in the bowel lumen is accompanied by degenerative changes in the bowel mucosa Route of nutrition - preferred •Oral •Enteral • •Far cheaper •More physiological •Reduce the risk of peptic ulceration •Minimize mucosal atrophy •May reduce translocation Enteral nutrition •Indicated when oral nutrition inadequate for 1-3 days • •Short term - 3 to 6 wks ▫Nasogastric or nasojejunal tube • •Long term – more then 6 wks ▫Surgical jejunostomy or percutaneous gastrostomy • Enteral nutrition •Nasogastric – most common in ICU •Potential problems - malposition, difficulty swallowing or coughing, discomfort, sinusitis and nasal tissue erosion •Nasal tube - contra-indicated in a patient with a base of skull fracture •Orogastric – to reduce sinusitis • [USEMAP] Enteral nutrition - post-pyloric feeding •Nasojejunal or jejunostomy •Avoids the problem of gastroparesis •Recommended for patients at high risk of aspiration •Patients who are intolerant of gastric feeding Enteral nutrition - contraindications •Acure abdomen •Bowell obstruction •Profuse vomiting, diarrhoe •Gastroparesis, ileus •Narrow stenosis of GI trackt •Toxic megacolon •Relative CI: pancreatitis, GI fistulae, ischemia Feeding formulas •Caloric density – • Carbohydrate content •Energy high formulas – • Excessive daily energy need and fluid restriction •Osmolality – carbohydrate content dependent •Calorie: nitrogen ratio •Carbohydrate: lipid ratio • Polymeric feeding formulas •Mixture of intact proteins, fats and carbohydrates •Require digestion prior to absorption •Balanced amount of nutrients, vitamins and trace elements •Tend to be lactose-free •Low viscosity •Preserved resorption •Nutrison, Fresubin • Elemental (oligomeric) feeding formulas •Macronutrients in a readily absorbable form •Oligopeptides, oligosacharides, dextrines, essential fatty acids •Low osmolality and viscosity •In patients with decreased absorption of GI tract ▫Severe malabsorbtion of pancreatic insuficiency • • PEPTI 2000 , Peptisorb, Survimed • Disease-specific formulae •Usually polymeric • •1. Liver disease - low Na and altered amino acid content (to reduce encephalopathy) •2. Renal disease - low phosphate and potassium, 2kcal/ml (to reduce fluid intake) •3. Respiratory disease - high fat content reduces CO2 production. Specific additives •Glutamine ▫Thought to promote anabolism ▫Intestinal growth factor • •Omega-3-fatty acids Parenteral nutrition •Unphysiological, bypassess liver •Rapid atrophy of GI mucosa •Expensive •Risk of infections and trombotic complications • •Central vein - hypertonic solutions •Peripheral – isotonic solutions – large volumes Parenteral nutrition •Can be used to supplement enteral nutrition - short gut syndrome •Sole source of nutrition: total parenteral nutrition •Evidence that PN is better than no nutritional support •Given as separate components or all-in-one Parenteral nutrition •Proteins - given as amino acids including essential amino acids •Lipid - commonly given as Intralipid ▫an emulsion made from soya with chylomicron sized particles •Carbohydrates – glucose •Electrolytes & Micronutrients – included or given separately Complications of nutritional support •Refeeding syndrome •Overfeeding •Hyperglycaemia •Specific complications of enteral nutrition •Specific complications of parenteral nutrition Refeeding syndrome •Severely malnourished or prolonged starvation •Starvation causes a loss of IC electrolytes (Na K pump failure) – IC stores depleted •Carbohydrate causes an insulin-dependent influx of electrolytes rapid and severe drops in serum levels of P, Mg, K and Ca •Weakness, respiratory failure, cardiac failure, arrhythmias, seizures and death •Solution – feed slowly Overfeeding •Deliberate overfeeding has been tried in an attempt to reverse catabolism but this does not work and is associated with a poor outcome. •Can cause uraemia, hyperglycaemia, hyperlipidaemia, fatty liver, hypercapnia Hyperglycaemia •critically ill - insulin resistant as part of the stress response •Tighter BM control reduces in-hospital mortality, length of stay, ventilator days, incidence of septicaemia •Continuous insulin infusion Specific complications of enteral nutrition • •Aspiration of feed causing pneumonia •Diarrhoea – exclude other causes of diarrhoea, • then a feed with more fibre can be tried Specific complications of parenteral nutrition • •Related to insertion and presence of a central venous catheter •Infection •Hepatobiliary disease - fatty liver, cholestasis and acalculous cholecystitis Summary •Malnutrition is associated with a poor outcome in critical illness •Enteral nutrition is the mainstay and should be started early •Parenteral nutrition only in selected patients •Glucose control with insulin therapy and important not to overfeed Questions ? ana_1_075_anaphylaxis_13_01_med [USEMAP]