Adequação do suporte nutricional enteral oferecido aos pacientes de uma unidade de terapia intensiva

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Malnutrition is a common framework in hospitalized patients. The most commonly used strategy to address malnutrition is Enteral Nutrition Therapy (TNE). Nevertheless, the TNE may cause complications that prevent the scope of the nutritional needs of the patient. It is therefore important that during TNE occur daily monitoring of complications, aiming to analyze the use of the diet. To assess the adequacy of the caloric and protein enteral nutritional support offered to patients in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a private hospital in Cuiabá / MT. METHODS: Cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach, with secondary data on patients exclusive use of TNE. RESULTS: Of the 115 patients evaluated, most of them were elderly and were undernourished-the first day of hospitalization. The average nutritional requirements of patients was 1765.31 ± 306.62 kcal and 91.96 ± 21,51g protein. However, the percentage of caloric and protein adequacy in relation to nutritional prescription was 40.31% and 39.98%, respectively. The main complications that the diet was not totally administered were awaiting passage of a nasogastric tube and fast, and there was a high amount of wasted financial resources due to not complete the prescribed infusion enteral nutrition. CONCLUSIONS: Among the variables studied, malnutrition, delay in probe passage and fasting for procedure contributed to the low adequacy of the diet, may increase the risk of mortality in patients admitted to the ICU evaluated.