Master Nutritional Assessment - Surgical Nutrition
How do you assess your patient's nutritional status? Why is the nutritional assessment important? What is undernutrition or severe nutritional risk? What are the essential components of the nutritional assessment? What labs are important? What does this have to do with surgery? How confident are you with surgical nutrition?
Welcome back friends!
In this video on Learning Nutritional Assessment we are going to discuss the approach to your elective and critically ill patients, understand what it means to be at severe nutritional risk and look at the labs important in the evaluation of nutritional status.
It is impossible to understand why your patient needs nutrition if you don't have an adequate understanding of how to assess their nutritional status. When are you going to give TPN? When does your patient need that additional nutrition? When is your patient at severe nutritional risk?
WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO LEARN
1.). How to assess the nutritional status of your patient
2.). How to determine if your patient is at severe nutritional risk
3.). How to determine if your patient needs preoperative nutritional supplementation
FAST FORWARD WITH THESE TIMESTAMPS
Review Clinical Case 01:38
Goals for Learning Nutritional Assessment 04:38
Why is it important to learn Nutritional Assessment 05:10
Key References ESPEN and Hitchhikers Guide 06:35
Importance of Undernutrition 07:27
Severe Nutritional Risk 09:52
Labs for Nutritional Assessment 11:22
Summary of Nutritional Assessment 13:07
CORRECTIONS
I made a mistake in the Labs section, the half life of Retinol Binding Protein is 10-12h not 10-12d
REFERENCES
1.). ESPEN Guidelines: http://citizensurgeon.co/ESPEN
2.). Hitchhiker's Guide to TPN: http://citizensurgeon.co/TPN
3.). Paper: Multivariable Risk for Surgical Site Infection: http://citizensurgeon.co/Neumayer
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