The effect of low body mass index on outcome in critically ill surgical patients

Nutrition in Clinical Practice

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 593-597

  Gupta, Rajeev ^a   Knobel, Denis ^a   Gunabushanam, Vikraman ^a   Agaba, Emanuel ^a   Ritter, Gary ^a   Marini, Corrado ^a   Barrera, Rafael ^a  

^a North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

critical care; nutrition assessment; nutritional support; outcome assessment; thinness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LOW BODY MASS INDEX; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; OBSTETRIC OPERATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPTICEMIA; SURGICAL PATIENT; UNDERWEIGHT; UROLOGIC SURGERY; VASCULAR SURGERY; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; THINNESS;

EID: 80053288792     PISSN: 08845336     EISSN: 19412452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0884533611419666     Document Type: Article

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