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Table 1 Recovery from ICU via Surveillance, Exercise, and Nutrition (RISEN) protocol

From: Winning the war against ICU-acquired weakness: new innovations in nutrition and exercise physiology

Day 1 (ICU admission)

Baseline nutritional and metabolic evaluation

Nutrition risk score (NUTRIC score?)

Metabolic evaluation with indirect calorimetry

Baseline muscle evaluation

Lean body mass ultrasound

Muscle glycogen ultrasound

Markers of muscle injury?

CPK-MM (creatine phosphokinase-muscle component)

Myoglobin

LDH-(lactate dehydrogenase)

Every 3-7 days post ICU admission

Ongoing nutritional evaluation

Indirect calorimetry to guide feeding and assess recovery and mitochondrial function along with lactate measurements.

Muscle evaluation

Lean body mass ultrasound

Muscle glycogen ultrasound

Markers of muscle injury?

CPK-MM

Myoglobin

Physiologic exercise evaluation (when able)

Diagnose exercise/mitochondrial function

Individualized exercise prescription including resistance training to improve metabolic and musculoskeletal function.