MetroCiencia Vol. 31 Nº 3 (2023)
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NOTICIAS MEDICAS: Nuevas publicaciones nacionales e internacionales
Hospital Metropolitano 2023
Diagnóstico y manejo del asma severo
de tratamiento difícil en adolescentes y
adultos. Agosto 2023
Neurocirugía para pacientes. Dr. Juan
Francisco Lasso. Agosto 2023
Ultrasonido cardiopulmonar. Editorial
Springer. Agosto 2023
Prevalencia de malnutrición y soporte
nutricional en UCIP Latinoamericanas.
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Agosto
2023
Copyright © 2023 by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine www.pccmjournal.org 1
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000003337
Copyright © 2023 by the Society of
Critical Care Medicine and the World
Federation of Pediatric Intensive and
Critical Care Societies
Santiago Campos-Miño, MD, MSc
1
Artur Figueiredo-Delgado, PhD
2
Patricia Zárate, MD
3
Patricia Zamberlan, PhD
2
Eliana Muñoz-Benavides, MD
4
Jorge A. Coss-Bu, MD
5
on behalf of the Nutrition
Committee, Latin American
Society of Pediatric Intensive
Care (SLACIP)
FEATURE ARTICLE
Malnutrition and Nutrition Support in Latin
American PICUs: The Nutrition in PICU
(NutriPIC) Study
OBJECTIVES: To characterize the nutritional status of children admitted to Latin
American (LA) PICUs and to describe the adequacy of nutrition support in refer-
ence to contemporary international recommendations.
DESIGN: The Nutrition in PICU (NutriPIC) study was a combined point-preva-
lence study of malnutrition carried out on 1 day in 2021 (Monday 8 November)
and a retrospective cohort study of adequacy of nutritional support in the week
preceding.
SETTING: Four-one PICUs in 13 LA countries.
PATIENTS: Patients already admitted to the PICU of 1 month to 18 years old on
the study day were included in the point-prevalence study. For the retrospective
arm, we included patients receiving nutritional support on the study day and with
a PICU length of stay (LOS) greater than or equal to 72 hours. Exclusion criteria
were being a neonate, conditions that precluded accurate anthropometric mea-
surements, and PICU LOS greater than 14 days.
INTERVENTIONS: None.
MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Of 316 patients screened, 5 did
not meet age criteria. There were 191 of 311 patients who were included in the
point-prevalence study and underwent anthropometric evaluation. Underweight
and length for age less than –2 z scores were present in 42 of 88 children (47.7%)
and 41 of 88 children (46.6%) less than 24 months old, and 14 of 103 (13.6%) and
(23/103) 22.3% of 103 children greater than or equal to 24 months, respec-
tively. Evidence of obesity (body mass index > 2 z score) was present in 7 of 88
children (5.7%) less than 24 months old and 13 of 103 children (12.6%) greater
than or equal to 24 months. In the 115 of 311 patients meeting criteria for the
retrospective arm, a total of 98 patients reported complete nutritional data. The
7-day median (interquartile range) adequacy for delivered versus recommended
enteral energy and protein requirement was 114% (75, 154) and 99% (60, 133),
respectively.
CONCLUSIONS: The NutriPIC study found that in 2021 malnutrition was
highly prevalent especially in PICU admissions of less than 24 months old.
Retrospectively, the 7-day median nutritional support appears to meet both en-
ergy and protein requirements.
KEY WORDS: critically ill; malnutrition; nutrition adequacy; nutrition support;
obesity; pediatrics
T
he historical pediatric critical care research data on nutrition, largely
over 10 years old, indicate that during critical illness nutritional de-
ciencies and malnutrition are associated with greater odds of morbidity
and mortality (1). ese studies report a prevalence of malnutrition ranging
from 15% to 50%, with a particular problem in Latin America (2, 3). Obesity
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