Professor Arthur van Zanten, President of ESPEN, Visited Our Emergency and Intensive Critical Care Department

On June 5th, Professor Arthur R.H. van Zanten, who serves as the President of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN), Vice Chairman of the Global Research Initiative for Post-Intensive Care Nutrition (GRIP), Editor-in-Chief of the internationally prestigious journal Clinical Nutrition, and Director of the Intensive Care Department at Wageningen University and Gelderse Vallei Hospital in the Netherlands, visited our Emergency and Intensive Critical Care Department.

The exchange event was chaired by Professor WANG Ruilan, Director of our Emergency and Intensive Critical Care Department. Attending Physician CHEN Cheng served as meeting secretary and resident physician JIANG Yihan provided simultaneous interpretation. Chief physician TIAN Rui, attending physicians ZHAO Lina, CHEN Ziyang, resident physician FEI Jieying, along with other clinical staff and graduate students, participated in the discussions. Both sides engaged in in-depth exchanges on precision strategies for enteral nutrition in critically ill patients, research translation, and clinical practice.

In the morning, Professor van Zanten conducted a teaching ward round in the ICU. Department physicians presented a case of severe pneumonia, covering respiratory management, rehabilitation exercises, and nutritional support strategies, along with the current treatment plan. Attending Physician ZHAO Lina performed bedside lung and intestinal ultrasound assessments to Professor van Zanten. Based on this case, Professor van Zanten provided guidance on respiratory management, protocolized weaning, and individualized nutritional support strategies. He noted that severe ARDS resulting from secondary aspergillus infection following viral infection has a mortality rate as high as 50%, and highly commended the department's success in achieving protocolized weaning and precise nutritional management for the patient.

Professor van Zanten also visited the core clinical areas of out hospital and the Emergency and Intensive Critical Care Department. He expressed his appreciation for the hospital's advanced facilities, patient-friendly environment, and efficient operational management system, and spoke highly of the department's standardized nutrition support protocols, multidisciplinary collaboration model, and critical care monitoring equipment.

During the academic symposium, Professor van Zanten delivered a lecture titled “Practical Strategies for Enteral Nutrition in Critically Ill Patients,” systematically presenting cutting-edge academic concepts and key clinical practices. In the interactive discussion, Chief Physician TIAN Rui, Attending Physician Zhao Lina, and Attending Physician Chen Ziyang engaged with the professor on core clinical issues such as timing of nutrition initiation, energy target setting, and gastrointestinal function assessment. Young physicians in the department also raised practical questions regarding full-phase nutrition management. Professor van Zanten acknowledged the department's alignment with internationally advanced concepts in nutrition management and provided professional recommendations from a global perspective. He also encouraged young physicians to address clinical questions through RCTs and engaged in an in-depth discussion with the team on key elements of clinical research. The academic atmosphere was vibrant and the discussion lively.

At the conclusion of the event, Professor Wang Ruilan, on behalf of the department, presented a commemorative gift to Professor van Zanten, and both parties posed for a group photo.

This international exchange served as a bridge connecting our Emergency and Intensive Critical Care Department with world-leading experts in critical care nutrition, reaffirming the department's alignment with global frontiers in diagnostic and therapeutic concepts, clinical practice, and research translation in critical care nutrition. As a regional center for emergency and critical care,our Emergency and Intensive Critical Care department will continue to deepen international academic collaborations, stay abreast of advances in critical care nutrition, and continuously enhance its capacity for critical care delivery and research innovation -- striving to improve outcomes for critically ill patients and contribute to the protection of public health.

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