Nutritional Status by Somatic Sub, Fat and Protein-Visceral at Entry in an Intensive Care Unit

The high prevalence of malnutrition in hospitals remains a problem of special importance in Spain at present due to the negative impact on the clinical course of hospitalized patients. Numerous studies show hospital malnutrition rates close to 33-50% of the hospitalized population. This impact is much more important and of greater importance when it comes to critically ill patients in the intensive care unit. Nutritional and metabolic deficit States have a direct impact on the patient, hindering the clinical evolution of the patient and increasing morbidity and mortality rates and hospital complications and healthcare costs arising. Develop an appropriate nutritional approach through nutritional media is a fundamental goal and a basic pillar for optimal management of the critically ill patient, being able I see hampered in many cases, especially in patients who present with hypercatabolism and hypermetabolism with significant energy consumption secondary to the disease process leading to admission. To this must be added the great difficulty of a comprehensive and complete assessment of nutritional status where many of these parameters, nutritional surveys and functional tests can be complicated to perform, unreliable, or may provide incorrect, incomplete or impossible data its realization.