Nutrition therapy during noninvasive ventilation: oral or enteral?.

Critical care nutrition guidelines focus on patients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation despite noninvasive ventilation being an increasingly common intervention. The optimal nutrition route in patients receiving noninvasive ventilation has not been established. This review aims to describe the implications of noninvasive ventilation on the route of feeding prescribed.

Implementation of a best-practice guideline: Early enteral nutrition in a neuroscience intensive care unit.

Report on an evidence-based practice project that was designed to improve care by implementing the early nutrition portion of "Guidelines for the Provision and Assessment of Nutrition Support Therapy in the Adult Critically Ill Patient: Society of Critical Care Medicine and the American Society for Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition."