Resumen

BOLET ASTOVIZA, Miriam; LARREA, Martha Esther  y  CAHCART ROCA, Fidel. The impact from the suitable nutritional treatment to the undernourished surgical patients. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2008, vol.7, n.1. ISSN 1729-519X.

In the surgical stress the necessities of basic nutriments are increased. In a patient with malnutrition energy nutrimental, they increase the complications like the sepsis, the delay in the scaring of the wounds, the dehiscencia in the sutures, and other, what worsens the presage. Objectives: To evaluate the impact from the suitable nutritional treatment to the undernourished surgical patients, to value the complications and the hospital demurrage in the patients of the group study and control. Method: 50 patients were studied entered in the rooms of Surgery of the General University" Hospital Calixto García", in two groups: cases and controls. Was carried out treatment nutritional perioperatorio to the undernourished patients of the study group and those of the group control they were left with the traditional treatment. Descriptive statistic of all the quantitative variables was obtained. Test of square chi was applied to determine association among variables and the measures antropométricas were compared before and after the nutritional support by means of the statistician of the test t of Student. Summations: The most of patients of the group of cases improved their preoperative nutritional state significantly and they had less complications that the patients of the group control. It is of great importance that improves the nutritional state of the patients that will be intervened surgically, to reduce the complications and a quicker recovery is reached in the surgical patients.

Palabras clave : surgical stress; malnutrition energy nutrimental; imbalance of nutriments; morbility and mortality.

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