Abstract

LIRA-VELIZ, Humberto; CONTRERAS-CAMARENA, Carlos Walter  and  GALARZA-MANYARI, Carlos Alberto. Unsatisfied request of clinical nutrition in critical patients admitted to Dos de Mayo National Hospital. Acta méd. peruana [online]. 2015, vol.32, n.3, pp.146-150. ISSN 1728-5917.

The malnutrition in critical patients is an independent risk factor associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Nutritional therapy introduced early in the critical patient improves prognosis, evolution and therapeutic response. Around two-thirds of critical patients admitted to the Dos de Mayo National Hospital have acute malnutrition. Only a small proportion of them receive nutritional support by altering their efficient recovery. Objectives. Determine the magnitude of the unsatisfied demand for nutritional therapy in critical patients admitted into the Dos de Mayo National Hospital. Patients and method. A quantitative, descriptive, exploratory, cross-sectional and retrospective study. It was performed in emergency rooms, intensive care, medicine and surgery wards of the Dos de Mayo National Hospital, during the period January 2010 to December 2012. The population were patients requiring nutrition therapy in any of three forms: total parenteral nutrition, peripheral parenteral nutrition, or peripheral enteral nutrition. Results. 54,31% of the patients were male. The male/female ratio was 1,18. It was found no significant difference regarding the nutritional status according to the variable sex. In both sexes the proportion of severe malnutrition was similar around a third of the total studied patients. The proportions of acute malnutrition in the critical patient for each year were: 68,3%, 62,81% and 68,65% in 2010, 2011 and 2012, respectively. Unsatisfied demand was 43,93%, 57,96% and 48,51% during 2010, 2011 and 2012, respectively. Conclusions. 27,97% of the patients had severe malnutrition. The unsatisfied demand of nutrition in critical patient was around 50%. One of every two critical patients requiring nutritional support does not receive it.

Keywords : malnutrition; nutritional therapy; nutritional status; nutrition, public health.

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