Comment: Early nutrition prescription in critically ill patients—learnings from the FRANS study

Abstract

Once more a large clinical study confirms the importance of respecting physiology in the critically ill patient, observing the individual response, and administering feeding progressively whatever the route. The prospective observational ‘French-Speaking ICU Nutritional Survey’ (FRANS) study was conducted in 26 ICUs over 3 months in 2015 [1]: it investigated the impact on the 28-day outcome of the feeding strategy during the first 10 days of the intensive care (ICU) in 1206 patients.