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Abstract
The aim of the work is to assess the nutritional status
of patients admitted at the ICU, by obtaining current
clinical status, anthropometric data, laboratory data and
estimating nutrient requirements and relate these values to
patients` outcomes. The role of this process is to identify
malnutrition or any specific nutrition risk. Nutrition
assessments may lead to recommendations for improving
nutrition status (e.g., some intervention such as change in
diet, enteral or parenteral nutrition, or further medical
assessment) or a recommendation for rescreening.
The present study was conducted upon 100 patients,
whether mechanically ventilated or not. Those patients
where admitted at the RICU at Abbasia Chest diseases
hospital in the period from October 2011 to October 2012.
Admission history, clinical examination, laboratory
investigations, anthropometric measurements and TEE
using Harris- Benedict equation after correction according
to Long et al hypermetabolism factors revealed that:
There was a statistically significant relationship
between patients` age, serum albumin, TLC, APACHE II,
SOFA and SAPS scores and patients` death.