Probiotics: A Little Help for Enteral Nutritional Therapy in Critically Ill Adults.
- 2025-08-30
- Review
- International journal of molecular sciences 26(17)
- Graciele Magda de Almeida
- Mariana Buranelo Egea
- PubMed: 40943377
- DOI: 10.3390/ijms26178458
- Moderate evidence
- Rigorous Journal
All studies demonstrated clinical benefits of some nature for patients who received enteral nutrition associated with the use of probiotics, such as reduced hospitalization time, improvement in the gastrointestinal tract, reduction in diarrhea associated with the use of antibiotics and inflammatory and immunological responses, and reduction in the incidence of pneumonia associated with mechanical ventilation.
- Effect
- Beneficial
- Effect size
- Moderate