Carlos Serón Arbeloa

Servicio Aragonés de Salud · Intensive Care Unit. San Jorge Universitary Hospital

Background: Enteral nutrition (EN) is the preferred route of nutrition in the critically ill patients. However, EN is not always able to provide optimal nutrient provision and parenteral nutrition (PN) is needed. We examined factors associated with the need of PN after start of EN, together with the use and complications associated with EN. Methods...

Malnutrition is a serious problem with a negative impact on the quality of life and the evolution of patients, contributing to an increase in morbidity, length of hospital stay, mortality, and health spending. Early identification is fundamental to implement the necessary therapeutic actions, involving adequate nutritional support to prevent or rev...

Malnutrition is a serious problem with negative impact on the quality of life and the evolution of our patients, contributing to an increase in morbidity, hospital stay, mortality and health spending. Early identification is fundamental to implement the necessary therapeutic actions involving adequate nutritional support to prevent or reverse malnu...

Background & Aims The importance of artificial nutritional therapy is underrecognized, typically being considered an adjunctive rather than a primary therapy. We aimed to evaluate the influence of nutritional therapy on mortality in critically ill patients. Methods This multicenter prospective observational study included adult patients needing ar...

Resumen El Grupo de Trabajo de Metabolismo y Nutrición de la Sociedad Española de Medicina Intensiva, Crítica y Unidades Coronarias (SEMICYUC) ha revisado y actualizado las recomendaciones del tratamiento nutrometabólico en el paciente crítico (previamente publicadas por el grupo en el año 2011) con la finalidad de ayudar a la toma de decisiones en...

The Metabolism and Nutrition Working Group of the Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine and Coronary Units (SEMICYUC) has reviewed and updated the recommendations for specialized nutritional and metabolic support in critically ill patients published by the Group in 2011, with the primary aim of helping decision making in daily cli...

BACKGROUND Evidence suggests that sleep deprivation associated with night-time working may adversely affect performance resulting in a reduction in the safety of surgery and anaesthesia. OBJECTIVE Our primary objective was to evaluate an association between nonelective night-time surgery and inhospital mortality. We hypothesised that urgent surger...

BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that sleep deprivation associated with night-time working may adversely affect performance resulting in a reduction in the safety of surgery and anaesthesia. OBJECTIVE: Our primary objective was to evaluate an association between nonelective night-time surgery and in-hospital mortality. We hypothesised that urgent surg...

There is a consensus that nutritional support, which must be provided to patients in intensive care, influences their clinical outcome. Malnutrition is associated in critically ill patients with impaired immune function and impaired ventilator drive, leading to prolonged ventilator dependence and increased infectious morbidity and mortality. Entera...

Background Clinical outcomes after major surgery are poorly described at the national level. Evidence of heterogeneity between hospitals and health-care systems suggests potential to improve care for patients but this potential remains unconfi rmed. The European Surgical Outcomes Study was an international study designed to assess outcomes after no...

Objective: To assess the nutritional response of a group of critically ill patients, as well as the differences in the response to nutritional support between medical and surgical patients. Methods: One-year long retrospective study including critically ill patients on artificial nutrition for 7 days. Throughout the first week, three nutritional...

Objective: To assess the nutritional response of a group of critically ill patients, as well as the differences in the response to nutritional support between medical and surgical patients. Methods: One-year long retrospective study including critically ill patients on artificial nutrition for 7 days. Throughout the first week, three nutritional bi...

To revise the effect of our nutritional support practices on outcomes from critical care patients and propose new study hypothesis. Retrospective observational study was conducted in all critically ill patients who had been prescribed nutritional support, through a year time, in an Intensive Care Unit. The nutritional support practices are describe...

Background & aims: To revise the effect of our nutritional support practices on outcomes from critical care patients and propose new study hypothesis. Methods: Retrospective observational study was conducted in all critically ill patients who had been prescribed nutritional support, through a year time, in an Intensive Care Unit. The nutritional su...

Energy requirements are altered in critically-ill patients and are influenced by the clinical situation, treatment, and phase of the process. Therefore, the most appropriate method to calculate calorie intake is indirect calorimetry. In the absence of this technique, fixed calorie intake (between 25 and 35 kcal/kg/day) or predictive equations such...

Energy requirements are altered in critically-ill patients and are influenced by the clinical situation, treatment, and phase of the process. Therefore, the most appropriate method to calculate calorie intake is indirect calorimetry. In the absence of this technique, fixed calorie intake (between 25 and 35 kcal/kg/day) or predictive equations such...

Energy requirements are altered in critically-ill patients and are influenced by the clinical situation, treatment, and phase of the process. Therefore, the most appropriate method to calculate calorie intake is indirect calorimetry. In the absence of this technique, fixed calorie intake (between 25 and 35 kcal/kg/day) or predictive equations such...

To determine whether early nutritional support reduces mortality and the incidence of nosocomial infection, in critically ill patients in the current practice. A retrospective observational study was conducted in all critically ill patients who had been prescribed nutritional support, throughout one year, in an Intensive Care Unit. The time to star...

Table listing the immune mediators' profiles in serum during the early response against the nvH1N1 virus.

Human host immune response following infection with the new variant of A/H1N1 pandemic influenza virus (nvH1N1) is poorly understood. We utilize here systemic cytokine and antibody levels in evaluating differences in early immune response in both mild and severe patients infected with nvH1N1. We profiled 29 cytokines and chemokines and evaluated th...

Critically ill patients have important modifications in their energetic requirements, in which the clinical situation, treatment applied and the time course take part. Thus, the most appropriate method to calculate the caloric intake is indirect calorimetry. When this test is not available, calculations such as Harris-Benedict's may be used, althou...

Critically ill patients have important modifications in their energetic requirements, in which the clinical situation, treatment applied and the time course take part. Thus, the most appropriate method to calculate the caloric intake is indirect calorimetry. When this test is not available, calculations such as Harris-Benedict's may be used, althou...

To compare the method for calculating the energy requirements in critical patients as calculated by our computer software with those measured using calorimetry and using the recommendations of experts in nutritional support. REFERENCE POPULATION: 18 critical patients with mechanical ventilation and admitted to our ICU during 1998. Indirect calorime...

Description of the nutritional support in an intensive care unit. REFERENCE POPULATION: Patients hospitalized in our ICU over a period of 48 months (October 1994-September 1998). The study was carried out by means of a review of the two data bases generated, one by using the clinical history management program, and the other by using the artificial...

To verify the hypothesis that a high nitrogen intake leads to better nutritional results in critical patients. REFERENCE POPULATION: Patients hospitalized in the critical care unit between 1995 and 1998 with nutritional support for 14 days, excluding patients with liver and/or kidney failure. The calculation of the requirements was made using a com...

A study is made of the evolution of the nutritional biochemical parameters, albumin, prealbumin, cholesterol, creatinine index/height and transferrin, as well as the nutrition route, SAPS, APACHE II, chronic age score, and maximum degree of metabolic stress reached, involving all patients requiring artificial nutrition during at least 14 days, admi...

In this study we present a computer program of artificial nutrition, designed with the aim of obtaining a useful and simple working tool, which simplifies the different steps to be taken when the need for artificial nutrition is indicated in a patient. It has been developed, by the authors, with the aim of organizing and improving the artificial nu...