Protein and energy provision in critical illness

¹ From the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

² Supported by grant MT-8725 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

³ Reprints not available. Address correspondence to LJ Hoffer, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Cote-Ste-Catherine Road West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T 1E2. E-mail: l.hoffer{at}mcgill.ca.

ABSTRACT  
It has recently been recommended that parenterally fed, critically ill patients should receive considerably less energy than the 36 kcal · kg^-1 · d^-1 customarily received in earlier years and that mixed amino acid infusions not exceed 1.5 g · kg^-1 · d^-1. The implications of these recommendations should be considered carefully, especially for patients with low body weight. Any sizeable reduction in energy provision will lead to negative energy balance in at least some patients, and negative energy balance is known to increase protein requirements. The optimal rate of amino acid delivery for underfed, critically ill patients is not well defined and could well exceed 1.5 g · kg^-1 · d^-1. In addition, there are good reasons to suspect that the safe protein requirement of severely underweight, critically ill patients is >1.5 g · kg^-1 · d^-1, even when adequate energy is provided.

Key Words: Amino acids • body composition • energy expenditure • nutrition support • parenteral nutrition

INTRODUCTION  
It is commonly believed that the daily energy expenditure (EE) of critically ill persons exceeds normal resting energy expenditure (REE) by 50% and is thus equivalent to a daily energy requirement of 36 kcal/kg (1, 2). This amount of energy is often provided in total parenteral nutrition (TPN), even to patients who are less than critically ill (3, 4). However, the view that this is too much energy in most situations has recently emerged. Adverse outcomes due to overfeeding could explain the failure of TPN to reduce mortality in critical illness, as well as the greater infection risk sometimes reported for TPN than for forced enteral nutrition, which typically advances more slowly and provides less energy than does TPN (5-8).

In fact, the REE of many critically ill patients is normal. This was shown most recently in a study in which the average REE of critically ill patients was found to be 23 kcal · kg^-1 · d^-1 both before and during TPN (9), thus indicating that critically ill patients who are inactive, moderately stressed, and continuously fed have an average REE close to their total daily EE. Several earlier studies document that the average REE of critically ill patients is 22-25 kcal · kg^-1 · d^-1 both before (10-12) and during (13-15) TPN.

The harmful effects of high-energy TPN are attributed to hyperglycemia, which induces immediate adverse metabolic responses (16, 17) and is associated with a greater infection risk and larger ischemic infarctions than is euglycemia (18-21). Prevention of hyperglycemia improves the clinical outcome of patients in surgical intensive care units (22, 23), and the goal of euglycemia is far easier to achieve when energy from carbohydrates is provided at a modest rate (18-20). Against this, however, are reports that the REE of critically ill patients is 36-40 kcal · kg^-1 · d^-1 (2, 24-27) or that it ranges between 25 and 36 kcal · kg^-1 · d^-1 (28-32). Provision of 22-25 kcal · kg^-1 · d^-1 to patients such as these would significantly underfeed them.

A second recent recommendation is that mixed amino acid infusions be reduced below historical recommendations of 1.5-2.0 g · kg^-1 · d^-1 (33). This issue has been debated (34), but it is now commonly recommended that daily amino acid infusion rates not exceed 1.5 g/kg (18, 35, 36).

In this article, I review the concepts necessary to assess the energy and amino acid needs of critically ill patients. In addition, I offer suggestions for clinical decision making in this important area of clinical nutrition.

PREDICTING ENERGY EXPENDITURE  
Direct measurement of EE is the ideal, but at present most clinicians use predictive equations to estimate the energy requirements of their patients. The most widely used equations are the Harris-Benedict (HB) equations (37, 38). The HB equation for men is

VARIABILITY IN ENERGY EXPENDITURE OF CRITICALLY ILL ADULTS  
Efforts to identify the determinants of EE in critical illness have generated a complicated and difficult clinical literature. REE and total EE are highly variable both between and within studies. The determinants of EE are many, have unknown dose responses, and overlap with, add to, or subtract from each other in such complicated ways that no equation that adequately predicts the EE of individual patients currently exists (47). Almost all predictive equations are functions of W, so their usefulness depends on its accurate measurement before fluid resuscitation, which can increase W by =" BORDER="0">15 kg (36). Obese or malnourished patients present special problems because obesity lowers the contribution of fat-free mass to W, and malnutrition increases the extracellular fluid volume (48, 49). Trauma and sepsis appear to entrain different metabolic responses (50), although differential effects on REE have not yet been predicted or shown (51). Burn injuries (28, 52) and head trauma (53, 54) are well known to increase REE, but the magnitude of the increase is highly variable. Paralysis, sedation, and ß-adrenergic blocking drugs reduce REE (55-60), whereas pressors increase it (27, 56). One would logically predict that the greater the severity of trauma or sepsis, the higher the REE (27, 47), but this has not been consistently observed (30, 31), presumably because of the confounding effects of fever, age, restless physical activity, pharmacotherapy, prior nutritional status, and the duration and evolutionary phase of the critical illness (1, 2, 61). Nutrient provision itself increases EE (33, 62-64), but such increases are probably important only when nutrients are provided in excess of REE (1, 9, 62, 65). However, patients with burn injuries may differ in this regard (28, 52). High intravenous doses of glucose acutely increase whole-body proteolysis (16) as well as heart rate and blood pressure, the latter (and conceivably the former) through free radical-mediated effects (17, 66, 67). It is tempting to speculate that the increased partial pressures of oxygen required by many critically ill patients could exaggerate these effects, but there are no data in the literature that address this. Fever is perhaps the most important easily measured factor responsible for variability in EE (9, 30, 68, 69). Ambient temperature is also important (1, 55, 70), and in patients who are not well insulated or warmed, open wounds probably increase energy production considerably and do so even more in the presence of a pyrogenic stimulus. As a further complication, some researchers who used modern indirect calorimeters to measure REE obtained normal values that were slightly but significantly less than values predicted by the HB equations or values obtained when REE was measured by using a gasometer, mouthpiece, and nose-clip apparatus similar to those used by Harris and Benedict (71, 72).

PROTEIN REQUIREMENT OF CRITICALLY ILL ADULTS  
The principal goal of nutritional therapy in critical illness is to protect lean tissue mass and function. Lean tissue loss is unavoidable when trauma or sepsis cause significant injury, and the rate and ultimate magnitude of the loss are greatest when the injury is severe and persistent (32, 36, 73). The therapeutic goal in this setting is to minimize ongoing lean tissue loss through appropriate provision of energy and amino acids (32, 35, 74, 75). Amino acids reduce body nitrogen loss, but protein sparing is not improved by infusion rates >1.5 g · kg^-1 · d^-1 (24, 76-78). These reports form the basis for recent recommendations that amino acid infusions not exceed 1.5 g · kg^-1 · d^-1, but it should be noted that these recommendations are based on average responses of heterogeneous groups of patients and may not apply to all patients. More importantly, the investigations were carried out in patients whose average weight was normal and who were provided with generous amounts of energy, which tends to maximize nitrogen retention. Negative energy balance increases protein requirements (PRs), and, as explained in the final section of this article, the PR of even adequately fed, underweight patients is probably >1.5 g · kg^-1 · d^-1.

EFFECT OF ENERGY BALANCE ON PROTEIN REQUIREMENTS  
It is well established that energy deficiency worsens nitrogen balance (33, 79-82). The results of the famous Minnesota starvation study (48) illustrate this phenomenon. The Minnesota volunteers (energy intake: 22 kcal · kg^-1 · d^-1) had substantial lean tissue loss despite adequate protein consumption (0.75 g · kg^-1 · d^-1). Indeed, energy intakes were set high in the early years of TPN largely because it was believed that no amount of dietary protein could protect the lean tissue store in the face of a negative energy balance (80). We now know that when nitrogen balance studies are carried out long enough for metabolic adaptation to take effect—a process that requires 3-4 d (83, 84)—high protein intakes do spare the lean tissues in many energy-deficient states (85-90). Nor is the protein-sparing effect of high protein intakes during energy restriction necessarily limited to obese persons. In an interesting study, normal-weight men who were made energy deficient for 10 wk while consuming 94 g protein/d had only minimal weight loss that could be attributed to lean tissue loss (91).

Given the inadequacy of current REE predictive equations, it is reasonable to predict that routinely providing 22-25 kcal · kg^-1 · d^-1 in TPN will render many patients energy deficient, and unless EE is directly measured, it could be difficult to identify who those patients are. A mild energy deficit is actually likely to benefit obese, critically ill patients (88, 92-96). However, quantitative information about the effects of hypocaloric nutritional support on the nitrogen balance of critically ill patients is lacking. The information that is available indicates that important protein sparing is indeed possible, but it does not permit the conclusion that 1.5 g amino acids · kg ideal body wt^-1 · d^-1 provides maximal protein sparing (Table 1).

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TABLE 1. . Hypocaloric nutritional support and nitrogen balance¹

 

STARVATION AND THE PROTEIN REQUIREMENT PER KILOGRAM OF BODY WEIGHT  
The adult PR is proportional to body weight. Stated mathematically,

CONCLUSIONS  
There is no equation currently available that adequately predicts the EE of critically ill patients, so it is inevitable that any general introduction of lower-energy TPN regimens will cause a negative energy balance in some patients. No amount of protein will prevent important lean tissue loss in the most severely catabolic patients, but many, or even most, underfed, less critically ill patients might benefit from =" BORDER="0">2 g amino acids · kg normal body wt^-1 · d^-1 to mitigate the loss of proteins caused by their intentional or unintentional energy deficiency. Currently available data do not justify limiting amino acid infusion rates to 1.5 g · kg^-1 · d^-1 in this situation.

Ahmad et al (46) showed that existing predictive equations underestimate the REE of severely underweight, mildly stressed, critically ill elderly patients. When direct REE measurement is impractical, it would be prudent to assume that the daily REE of such patients (eg, persons whose body mass index is 17) is =" BORDER="0">31 kcal/kg dry body weight, in keeping with the results of Ahmal et al (46). By coincidence, the HB equation predicts that the REE of a 25-y-old, 1.75-m reference man with a body mass index of 16 is 30 kcal/kg. Therefore, pending further clinical information, it is reasonable to assume that the daily maintenance energy requirement of all severely underweight patients is =" BORDER="0">31 kcal/kg.

Despite the universal assumption that the human PR is a simple multiple of weight, Equation 5 (where k is the conventional proportionality constant, but where PR₀ is a nonzero constant analogous to REE₀ in the REE equation) is more biologically plausible. The clinical implication is that PR/W of severely underweight, stressed patients is probably greater than that of comparably stressed, normal-weight patients. Pending the accumulation of clinical data, it is prudent to assume that the PR/W of severely underweight patients is greater than that of normal-weight patients by approximately the same proportion that the 25W equation (with its similarly incorrect assumption that REE₀ = 0) underestimates REE, ie, by 25%. A severely underweight patient in neutral or positive energy balance who, under current guidelines, would receive 1.5 g amino acids · kg^-1 · d^-1 may actually require 25% more than this, or 1.9 g · kg^-1 · d^-1.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS  
The author had no financial or personal interest in any organization or company sponsoring his research.

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