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pediatrics
nutritional status
complications
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Objective: To establish the relationship between nutritional status and enteral nutrition complications in patients hospitalized in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Design: Analytical, observational, cross-sectional study between October 2020 and March 2021. Setting: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of the National Hospital “Prof. Alejandro Posadas”, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Patients: Between 1 and 179 months of age, with a stay >48 h and exclusive enteral nutrition, selected by non-probabilistic convenience sampling. Interventions: Identification of gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with exclusive enteral nutrition, during their hospital stay. Primary endpoint: Gastrointestinal complications related to enteral nutrition (diarrhea, abdominal distension, constipation). Results: 113 patients (55% boys, 45% girls) with a median age of 28 months. The median stay in Therapy was 9 days (range 5.5-18). 57% had at least one gastrointestinal symptom, and the most frequent was abdominal distension. A significant association (pv 0.014) was found between patients with obesity and diarrhea. Conclusions: An association was observed between the nutritional diagnosis at admission and the symptoms related to enteral nutrition. Likewise, a relationship was found between longer hospital stay and a higher prevalence of gastrointestinal symptoms
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