ANZIC-RC Nutrition Program

ANZIC-RC Nutrition Team is leading a new Priority Setting Partnership in conjunction with the UK’s James Lind Alliance (JLA).

Nutrition Care for Critically Ill Adults is an Australian study that brings together patients, carers and healthcare professionals to identify and rank the most important unanswered questions about nutrition care for critically ill adults.

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About us

The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre Nutrition Program is led by Associate Professor Emma Ridley. The aims of the Nutrition Program are to:

  • Conduct high quality, meaningful research that addresses the needs of consumers and generates new knowledge to impact global nutrition care for critically ill patients
  • Improve capacity and skill in critical care nutrition research across Australia and New Zealand
  • Support and mentor academic clinician researchers of all disciplines with an interest in critical care nutrition

Current Studies

Completed Studies

  • ASAP – Audit of Severe Acute Pancreatitis Feeding Practices in Australasia
  • ECMO-Energy – The measurement of energy expenditure in patients receiving veno-arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
  • ECMO Observational – Nutrition therapy in adult patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a prospective, multicentre, observational study
  • ENTERIC – Early nasojejunal with nasogastric nutrition in critical illness
  • INTENT – Intensive Nutrition Therapy comparEd to usual care iN criTically ill adults – A randomised controlled trial
  • INTENT Muscle – Intensive Nutrition Therapy comparEd to usual care iN criTically ill adults – Muscle
  • POLAR-BEAR – Prophylactic hypothermia trial to Lessen traumatic brain injury – Basal Energy Assessment Research
  • Supplemental parenteral nutrition in critically ill patients – A pilot randomised controlled study
  • TARGET – The Augmented versus Routine approach to Giving Energy Trial

The Nutrition Program Team