Introduction: Few data described practicalities of using mechanical insufflation-exsufflation (MI-E) for invasively ventilated ICU patients and evidence for benefit of their use is lacking. Aim and objective: To identify barriers and facilitators to use MI-E devices in invasively ventilated ICU patients, …

BACKGROUND: In critically ill patients, auscultation might be challenging as dorsal lung fields are difficult to reach in supine-positioned patients, and the environment is often noisy. In recent years, clinicians have started to consider lung ultrasound as a useful diagnostic tool for a variety of pulmonary …

Background & aims: High protein delivery during early critical illness is associated with lower mortality, while energy overfeeding is associated with higher mortality. Protein-to-energy ratios of traditional enteral formulae are sometimes too low to reach protein targets without energy overfeeding. …

BACKGROUND: Hemodynamic assessment of critically ill patients is a challenging endeavor, and advanced monitoring techniques are often required to guide treatment choices. Given the technical complexity and occasional unavailability of these techniques, estimation of cardiac function based on clinical …

Aanleiding en doel De Ten Haaf-Weijs formule maakt een valide schatting van het energieverbruik in rust (REE) van sporters, maar maakt geen onderscheid in type sport. Het type sport dat wordt beoefend lijkt echter wel van invloed op het REE. Er wordt aangenomen dat krachtsporters door een relatief hogere …

Meer dan 50% van de oncologische patiënten is ondervoed. Om deze reden is het geven van een passend dieetadvies van belang, waarbij het voor de diëtist cruciaal is om inzicht te krijgen in de energiebehoefte van de patiënt. In de praktijk wordt gebruikgemaakt van diverse formules om de energiebehoefte …

OBJECTIVES: The Behavioral Pain Scale (BPS) and Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool (CPOT) are behavioral pain assessment tools for sedated and unconscious critically ill patients. The aim of this study was to compare the reliability, internal consistency, and discriminant validation of the BPS and the …

The COMFORT scale is a measurement tool to assess distress, sedation and pain in nonverbal paediatric patients. Several studies have described the COMFORT scale, but no formal assessment of the methodological quality has been undertaken. Therefore, we performed a systematic review to study the clinimetric …