Table 3.
Nutrition Therapy and physical activity.
| n | Overall |
Mechanically ventilated |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| non-COVID 627 | COVID 602 | p value | non-COVID 339 | COVID 458 | p value | |
| Route of Nutrition therapy, n (%) | ||||||
| Enteral (not oral) | 313 (49.9) | 416 (69.1) | <0.0001∗ | 228 (67.3) | 374 (81.7) | <0.0001∗ |
| Oral | 155 (24.7) | 165 (27.4) | 0.28 | 28 (8.3) | 63 (13.8) | 0.014∗ |
| Parenteral | 121 (19.3) | 37 (6.2) | <0.0001∗ | 71 (20.9) | 31 (6.8) | <0.0001∗ |
| Total energy delivery (kcal/kg/day), n (%) | <0.0001∗ | <0.0001∗ | ||||
| x <10 | 155 (24.7) | 53 (4.3) | 86 (25.4) | 44 (9.6) | ||
| 10≤ x <20 | 191 (30.5) | 221 (36.7) | 105 (31.0) | 173 (37.8) | ||
| 20≤ x <30 | 220 (35.1) | 286 (47.5) | 118 (34.8) | 206 (45.0) | ||
| x ≥30 | 61 (9.7) | 42 (7.0) | 30 (8.9) | 35 (7.6) | ||
| Protein delivery ≥1.2 g/kg/day, n (%) | 216 (35.4) | 232 (45.0) | 0.0011∗ | 121 (36.0) | 179 (47.0) | 0.0029∗ |
| IMS on the survey day | 1 (0, 2) | 0 (0, 3) | 0.067 | 0 (0, 1) | 0 (0, 1) | 0.82 |
COVID, coronavirus disease; IMS, intensive care unit mobility scale. ∗ infers a significant difference with p <0.05.