Desnutrición Hospitalaria / Nosocomial Malnutrition

ABSTRACT

Hospitalary malnutrition is a highly prevalent entity. Hospitalized patients with severe malnutrition usually show a high morbimortality. Many severe malnutritions inside the hospital could be avoided. The adequate and early nutritional support can mitigate or even spare a severe malnutrition. The introduction of a nutritions support team management in a community hospital is a favorable cost/beneficial resource. Also the possibility of a domiciliary nutritional support, should be a feasibe practice in a high complexity hospital. Still remains as an ethical dilemma to determine when a patient should be considered as terminal and when the nutritional support - even with low complexity and low costis a trifling therapeutics.