Factores predictivos de desnutrición en pacientes graves

Malnutrition affected most of the seriously ill patients at the time of their discharge, expenditure, although there was certain degree of malnutrition at the time of admission. This condition prevailed in ventilated patients, with a longer hospital stay, with basically a mixed nutritional support. It is noted that a hospital stay longer than 10 days and surgical treatment on the alimentary canal were the factors that predicted a more unfavourable effect on the nutritional state in the patients.