Volume : VIII, Issue : III, March - 2019

NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT IN CRITICALLY ILL SURGICAL PATIENTS

Maj Dr Yogesh Kukreja, Col Dr Ss Chauhan

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Background and objectives: Nutritional assessment of the critically ill is an accepted principle in managing patients in the surgical intensive care units. Although various procedures are available to assess the nutritional requirements of the individual patients, there is no set protocol available to determine or predict the nutritional support of critically ill patients. This study addresses this issue of nutritional assessment in the critically ill patients. Methods: A prospective cohort study including patients who were admitted to the surgical intensive care unit. Nutritional assessment done for these patients using Subjective Global Assessment and anthropometry and those who received nutritional support were compared with those who have not received nutritional support. Results: Subjective Global Assessment is a more reliable as compared to Anthropometry in assessing nutritional support of critically ill surgical patients. Malnourished patients who received nutritional support have a better outcome as compared to those who did not with a trend towards normalization of biochemical parameters (Serum albumin). Conclusion: Nutritional assessment is important especially in the critically ill patient. Sensitivity to nutritional risk on the part of the surgeon may lead to identification of patients at risk for developing nutrition related morbidity and mortality. Using tools patient can be identified who would benefit from nutritional assessment. It is also evident that moderate to severely malnourished patients are more likely to benefit from nutritional support.

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NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT IN CRITICALLY ILL SURGICAL PATIENTS, Maj (Dr) Yogesh Kukreja, Col (Dr) SS Chauhan INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-3 | March-2019

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