The Nutrition Investigation Into284Hospitalized Critically Ill Children

ObjectivesThrough investigating hospitalized critically ill children’s nutrition risk, possibility of acute and chronic malnutrition, this paper explores the proportion of acute malnutrition among critically ill children, the connection among the length of stay in the hospital, nutrition risk as well as malnutrition, which provides theoretical base for rational nutrition of hospitalized critically ill children.Methods284cases of hospitalized critically ill children were randomly selected as research objects. STRONGkids proposed by Hulst, etc. in2010was adopted as nutrition screening tool. Several means such as SGA evaluation, illness risk, dietary situation, weight loss and growth difficulty investigation were adopted to measure children’s nutritional status.ResultsOf the284randomly selected hospitalized children with critical illnesses, their average age is1.22±1.73years old with average length of stay14.2±5.51days. The proportion of acute malnutrition at the beginning of hospitalization was found19.01%and malnutrition27.82%,27.46%of the children were found easily vulnerable to malnutrition and25.32%with medium possibility. There are positive correlation between malnutrition risk and malnutrition (r=0.6,b=-0.25,c=0.01, p<0.001); among those with malnutrition risk, the SD average of WFH was found obviously low, the proportion of malnutrition comparatively long. ConclusionsThe nutrition support of hospitalized children with critical illnesses has not been stressed enough. The unsatisfactory nutrition support of hospitalized children with critical illnesses could increase the possibility of acute malnutrition and extend the length of stay.