• Luis Ortiz-Reyes, Zheng-Yii Lee, Chin Han LewCharlesCDepartment of Dietetics & Nutrition, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Singapore., Aileen Hill, Marc G Jeschke, Alexis F Turgeon, Leopoldo Cancio, Christian Stoppe, Jayshil J Patel, Andrew G Day, and Daren K Heyland.
• Clinical Evaluation Research Unit, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
• Crit. Care Med. 2023 Aug 1; 51 (8): 108610951086-1095.

ObjectivesEvidence supporting glutamine supplementation in severe adult burn patients has created a state of uncertainty due to the variability in the treatment effect reported across small and large randomized controlled trials (RCTs). We aimed to systematically review the effect of glutamine supplementation on mortality in severe adult burn patients.Data SourcesMEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, and Cochrane Central were searched from inception to February 10, 2023.Study SelectionRCTs evaluating the effect of enteral or IV glutamine supplementation alone in severe adult burn patients were included.Data ExtractionTwo reviewers independently extracted data on study characteristics, burn injury characteristics, description of the intervention between groups, adverse events, and clinical outcomes.Data SynthesisRandom effects meta-analyses were performed to estimate the pooled risk ratio (RR). Trial sequential analyses (TSA) for mortality and infectious complications were performed. Ten RCTs (1,577 patients) were included. We observed no significant effect of glutamine supplementation on overall mortality (RR, 0.65, 95% CI, 0.33-1.28; p = 0.21), infectious complications (RR, 0.83; 95% CI, 0.63-1.09; p = 0.18), or other secondary outcomes. In subgroup analyses, we observed no significant effects based on administration route or burn severity. We did observe a significant subgroup effect between single and multicenter RCTs in which glutamine significantly reduced mortality and infectious complications in singe-center RCTs but not in multicenter RCTs. However, TSA showed that the pooled results of single-center RCTs were type 1 errors and further trials would be futile.ConclusionsGlutamine supplementation, regardless of administration, does not appear to improve clinical outcomes in severely adult burned patients.Copyright © 2023 by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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