For critically ill patients, timely nutritional support can aid recovery and reduce mortality risk. But what about a patient in septic shock who is receiving vasopressor therapy, or one who requires prone positioning or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)—what should be the feeding strategy?

Using a case-based approach, three speakers discussed the feeding challenges for some of the most difficult-to-treat ICU patients during the ASPEN 2024 Nutrition Science & Practice Conference, in Tampa, Fla.

Angela L. Bingham, PharmD, BCPS, BCNSP, BCCCP, the acting chair and a clinical associate professor at St. Joseph’s University’s Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, focused on “this often highly controversial question of whether to feed or not to feed in the setting of enteral nutrition [EN] and vasopressors.”

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