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Nutrición Hospitalaria
On-line version ISSN 1699-5198Print version ISSN 0212-1611
Abstract
MARTINEZ RODRIGUEZ, Jéssica and ROCA FONTBONA, Maria. Comparison of expert recommendations on clinical nutrition for hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Nutr. Hosp. [online]. 2020, vol.37, n.5, pp.984-998. Epub Jan 04, 2021. ISSN 1699-5198. https://dx.doi.org/10.20960/nh.03194.
Introduction:
in SARS-CoV-2-infected patients nutritional requirements are increased. These patients present symptoms that make food intake and nutrient absorption difficult, therefore involving nutritional risk. On the other hand, acute respiratory complications require prolonged ICU stays, and this predisposes to increased malnutrition and loss of skeletal muscle mass and function, which can lead to poor quality of life, disability and morbidity long after discharge. For this reason, the world's leading nutrition societies and associations believe that nutritional therapy should be considered a part of the basic treatment of patients with COVID-19.
Methods:
we have reviewed and compared 9 expert recommendations (ER) published by nutrition societies and associations from China, Spain, Brazil, Europe, Colombia, Australia, America, and the United Kingdom, in relation to critical and non-critical hospitalized patients due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conclusions:
the 9 ERs reviewed agree on the importance of nutritional management in critical and non-critical hospitalized patients with COVID-19, as well as on the early detection of nutritional risk, the intervention, and subsequent follow-up. Even so, each published document has its own particularities and puts a special stress on some specific aspect.
Keywords : COVID-19; Nutrition therapy; Pandemics; Nutritional support; Nutritional requirements; Malnutrition.