Abstract:
At present, fighting against the novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) epidemic is entering the decisive stage, and nutritional treatment of critically ill patients is a key measure to reduce the mortality. This paper aims to provide recommendations to improve the effect of nutrition therapy among the critically ill COVID-19 patients. Taken the front-line clinical experience and metabolic characteristics of critically ill patients into consideration, we have made recommendations on characteristics of nutritional metabolism, nutrition screening, nutritional requirements, choice of nutrition programs and approaches, and monitoring method of nutrition during the treatment for critically ill COVID-19 patients.