Comparação das ferramentas de triagem e avaliação antropométrica na detecção do risco nutricional em pacientes hospitalizados

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Flávia Fabrina
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: http://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/8748
• topic: Desnutrição; Pacientes hospitalizados; Antropometria; Instrumentos de triagem; Triagem nutricional; Instruments of triage; Malnutrition; Triage Nutrition

Introduction: Malnutrition is a clinical condition due to a deficiency of one or more essential nutrients and a negative energy and protein balance. So, it’s extremly important the early detection of malnutrition as well to use the nutritional risk screening that precedes the evaluation and allows the evaluation of individuals who need an early nutritional analysis. The aim of this study was to compare different types of nutritional screening tools with anthropometric measures and to verify which is more sensitive in the detection of nutritional risk by applying it on hospitalized patients. Method: Cross-sectional and quantitative study, sample selection for convenience and consecutive; evaluation of data collected at the Local Hospital, in Lagarto-SE, during the period from November-2017 to February-2018. The nutritional screening tools (MUST, NRS-2002 and ASG) were applied by a student and a resident nutritionist of the hospital. Weight, height and arm circumference were collected. Results: The results showed that the highest prevalence was male, mean age was 58.63 + 18.56 (> 20 years). The arm circumference (AC) showed a higher percentage of risk (38%, n = 54) (Figure 1), so it was chosen to correlate it with the screening instruments. And the NRS 2002, was the one that detected a lower nutritional risk (26%, n = 37). Conclusion: The study showed that the SGA in conjunction with AC are methods that, when applied, detect early nutritional risk, facilitating the hospital routine and thus, a specific nutritional intervention can be applied to the patient.