Juan Carlos Montejo

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Do you use supplemental glutamine in parenteral nutrition of your ICU patients treated with complete (not associated with enteral nutrition) PN?

There is much discussion on this field, glutamine is recommended when critically ill patients need parenteral nutrition. We agree with this recommendation and use glutamine in our patients when...

11 May 2014 6,789 15 View

Did you use metoclopramide to prevent gastric intolerance in critically ill patients receiving enteral nutrition by a nasogastric tube?

Metoclopramide is now a controversial drug for this indication. Some regulatory authorities have alerts against use of this drug due to some cases of neurologic secondary adverse effects.

06 November 2013 4,028 31 View