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Revista del Nacional (Itauguá)
Print version ISSN 2072-8174
Abstract
ROJAS, María Inés Gavilán et al. Enteral nutrition in critical ill patients with COVID-19 infection in mechanically ventilation with prone position. Rev. Nac. (Itauguá) [online]. 2024, vol.16, n.2, pp.32-42. ISSN 2072-8174. https://doi.org/10.18004/rdn2024.may.02.032.042.
Introduction:
SARS-CoV-2 since 2020 has generated countless challenges. Prone position was used to improve oxygenation, and nutritional therapy was adapted to meet requirements and reduce complications.
Objectives:
evaluate the tolerance of enteral nutrition and its energetic adequacy in ventilated patients in the prone position with SARS-CoV-2 infection, in the respiratory room of the Adult Intensive Care Department of the Hospital de Clínicas - Facultad de Ciencias Médicas - Universidad Nacional de Asunción, from March to July 2021.
Methodology:
observational, descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional study of consecutive cases, with information obtained from records of intensive care patients, who received nutritional support in a prone position. Demographic, clinical and nutritional data were taken. Nutritional tolerance was evaluated during the prone position, defining it as the presence of a volume of gastric residue < 500 mL every 6 h. Energy adequacy was determined taking into account the percentage fulfilled of the nutritional prescription.
Results:
41 patients were recruited. 60.9 % were men; the median age was 55 years (IQR=23). The main comorbidities were obesity (57.3 %) and high blood pressure (43.9 %). 85.4 % had good gastric tolerance in the prone position, with gastric residue less than 500 ml. The percentage of energy adequacy was 84 %.
Conclusion:
enteral nutritional therapy in the prone position was well tolerated by the majority of our patients, making it possible to achieve the indicated nutritional requirements.
Keywords : enteral nutrition; intensive therapy; prone position; gastric residue; COVID-19.