Pharmacist-Led Nutritional Interventions Benefit Post-ICU Patients

With nutritional care being paramount in patients recovering from the intensive care unit (ICU), pharmacist-led interventions showed a clear benefit in improving post ICU care, according to a study published in Clinical Nutrition Open Science.¹

“The care for patients admitted to the ICU has made important progress over the last years due to better education, enhanced technology, and sophisticated devices, leading to a significant increase in ICU survival,” wrote authors of the study. “However, of those patients that survive, about 80% experience a new or worsened impairment of physical, psychological, or cognitive health, or a combination of…