CORDIS Project
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This project explores the benefits of fasting in critically ill patients in intensive care units. It aims to utilize natural catabolic processes, specifically fat breakdown and ketone production, to prevent brain dysfunction and muscle weakness, ultimately enhancing recovery in long-stay ICU patients.
Since a few decades, human patients who suffer from severe illnesses or multiple trauma, conditions that were previously lethal, are being treated in intensive care units (ICUs).
Modern intensive care medicine bridges patients from life-threatening conditions to recovery with use of mechanical devices, vasoactive drugs and powerful anti-microbial agents.
By postponing death, a new unnatural condition, intensive-care-dependent prolonged (>1 week) critical illness, has been created.
About 25% of I…
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
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