Nutritional risk screening application in hospitalized children and adolescents with congenital heart disease
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https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2020.42004Keywords:
Congenital heart desease. Pediatrics. Malnutrition.Abstract
Introduction: The nutritional screening in children is extremely important in the hospital environment because it is a simple and efficient tool. Objective: Detecting the nutritional risk, from pediatric nutritional screening Strong Kids method in children and adolescents with congenital heart desease. Method: 81 children and adolescents were evaluated with congenital heart desease until 48 hours of hospitalization, in the period from August 2016 to May 2017. The data collection was through a pediatric nutritional screening. The statistical analysis was through chi-square test for the purpose of verify the level of significance, p < 0,05. Results: Among the results obtained, there was a higher prevalence of children with hospitalized congenital heart desease of the female gender 60,49% (n=49). According to the classification of the life phases, the highest predominance was in the pre school phase (46,91%), then infants (27,16%), adolescents (13,58%) and scholar (12,35%). There was no nutritional deficit for 74,07%. According chi-square test, it was observed a relevance to the medium nutritional risk. Conclusion: The pediactric nutritional screening is extremely important in clinical practice, in view of the best form of evaluation through the reach of early nutritional intervention, this will entail adequate nutritional treatment, specially children with congenital heart desease.
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