Valoración del estado nutricional de pacientes neurocríticos que acuden al Hospital Teodoro Maldonado Carbo de la ciudad de Guayaquil, periodo 2020.

Abstract

Patients diagnosed with neurodegenerative problems present major nutritional complications, due to the high caloric expenditure that they show throughout their intervention, this accompanied by the long hospital stay, which is one of the main problems associated with the patient having a nutritional risk. The NRS 2002 screening is a screening tool that has the ability to predict the risk of hospital malnutrition, due to its high specificity, and by addressing questions of weight loss, loss of appetite, severity of the disease, it is capable of acting precisely. The objective of the present study is to determine the Nutritional status in Neurocritical Patients who attend the “Hospital Teodoro Maldonado Carbo”, period 2020. The results obtained showed that of a total of 50 patients, 32% of the patients found a normal nutritional risk. 10% with slight risk. 44% with moderate risk and 14% with severe risk. It was possible to demonstrate that the NRS 2002 is very relevant for the early detection of nutritional risk in neurocritical patients.