ArticleFrontiers in pediatrics2023
Evaluation of nutritional status in pediatric intensive care unit patients: the results of a multicenter, prospective study in Turkey.
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- Nutrition protocols improve caloric adequacy in critically Ill children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Pooled it
- Association of peripheral blood lymphocytes and immunoglobulins with disease severity in pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome: an age-stratified retrospective study.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Deterioration of nutritional status at discharge in critically ill children with appropriate BMI and its association with clinical outcomes: a prospective observational study.BMC pediatrics · 2025Observational
- An Assessment of Intermittent and Continuous Enteral Feeding in Critically Ill Children.Nutrients · 2025Observational
- Invasive Candida Infections in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Risk Factors and New Insights in Prevention.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Reporting of social determinants of health in randomized controlled trials conducted in the pediatric intensive care unit.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Malnutrition is defined as a pathological condition arising from deficient or imbalanced intake of nutritional elements. Factors such as increasing metabolic demands during the disease course in the hospitalized patients and inadequate calorie intake increase the risk of malnutrition. The aim of the present study is to evaluate nutritional status of patients admitted to pediatric intensive care units (PICU) in Turkey, examine the effect of nutrition on the treatment process and draw attention to the need for regulating nutritional support of patients while continuing existing therapies. Material and Method: In this prospective multicenter study, the data was collected over a period of one month from PICUs participating in the PICU Nutrition Study Group in Turkey. Anthropometric data of the patients, calorie intake, 90-day mortality, need for mechanical ventilation, length of hospital stay and length of stay in intensive care unit were recorded and the relationship between these parameters was examined. Results: Of the 614 patients included in the study, malnutrition was detected in 45.4% of the patients. Enteral feeding was initiated in 40.6% ( Conclusion: Timely and appropriate nutritional support in critically ill patients favorably affects the clinical course. The results of the present study suggest that mortality rate is higher in patients who fail to achieve the target calorie intake at first 48 h and day seven of admission to the intensive care unit. The risk of mortality decreases with increasing triceps skin fold thickness Z-score.
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