Progress in nutrition treatment for severe pneumonia / 中国医师杂志

Severe pneumonia is a common disease in intensive care unit (ICU), which is characterized by acute onset, poor prognosis, and can cause multiple systems dysfunction. For critical ill patients, in a state of stress, catabolism is increased, and nutritional risk is extremely high. Proper nutrition treatment can reduce the decomposition of own tissues in the stress period and supplement the protein and energy needed by the body′s metabolism. Therefore, the nutritional treatment of severe pneumonia patients is particularly important. This paper mainly reviews the nutritional literatures of severe pneumonia and critical ill patients in recent years, in order to provide more appropriate nutritional treatment for severe pneumonia patients.