Update on antioxidant micronutrients in the critically ill

• Published in: Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care Vol. 16; no. 6; p. 719
• Main Authors: Manzanares, William, Langlois, Pascal L, Hardy, Gil
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 01.11.2013
• Subjects: Animals; Anti-Inflammatory Agents - administration & dosage; Antioxidants - administration & dosage; Critical Illness - mortality; Critical Illness - therapy; Dietary Supplements; Disease Models, Animal; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Humans; Micronutrients - administration & dosage; Mitochondrial Diseases - drug therapy; Oxidative Stress - drug effects; Selenium - administration & dosage; Zinc - administration & dosage

To evaluate recent evidence on pharmaconutrition with antioxidant micronutrients, for different populations of adult critically ill patients. Over the last few years, different studies have shown that high-dose trace elements and vitamins, especially parenteral selenium and zinc, may be able to impr...