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- Title
Nutritional Support, Gastric Residual Volume and Nutritional Status during Enteral Nutrition in Intensive Care Unit Patients.
- Authors
Minju Lee; Jiyeon Kang
- Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the nutritional support, gastric residual volume, and nutritional status of the intensive care unit (ICU) patients on enteral feeding. Methods: A descriptive longitudinal design was used to collect 5 day data on enteral nutrition of 52 ICU patients in an university hospital. Nutritional support was calculated with actual caloric intake compared to individual caloric requirement. Residual volumes were measured prior to routine feedings, and the serum albumin levels and the total lymphocyte counts were checked to evaluate nutritional status. The data were analyzed using one group repeated measures ANOVA, paired t-test, and Spearman’s bivariate correlation analysis. Results: The subjects received their first enteral feeding on the 5.75th day of ICU admission. The mean nutritional support rate was 49.1% of the requirement, however prescription rate and support rate were increased as time goes by. Gastric residual volumes were less than 10 cc in 95% cases. A significant negative correlation was found between nutritional support and nutritional status. Conclusion: The nutritional support for ICU patient was low compared to the requirement, and their nutritional status was worse than at the time of ICU admission. Further studies are necessary to develop nursing interventions for improving nutritional support for ICU patients.
- Subjects
ACADEMIC medical centers; ANALYSIS of variance; CRITICALLY ill; DIET therapy; ENTERAL feeding; GASTROINTESTINAL motility; INTENSIVE care units; LONGITUDINAL method; RESEARCH methodology; PATIENTS; STATISTICS; T-test (Statistics); DATA analysis; ALBUMINS; REPEATED measures design; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; NUTRITIONAL status
- Publication
Korean Journal of Adult Nursing, 2014, Vol 26, Issue 6, p621
- ISSN
1225-4886
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7475/kjan.2014.26.6.621