MALNUTRITION IN SURGICAL PATIENTS

Disease-related malnutrition is common among hospitalized

patients, and is associated with all of these outcomes, EXCEPT one. Please mark it:

• Increased risk of pressure ulcers

• Increases in length of hospital stay

• Increased health care costs

• Increased antibiotic resistance

Approximately 30% of hospitalized patients have protein malnutrition

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• FALSE

Loss of mass muscle is the most critical consequence of malnutrition.

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• FALSE

Nutritional assessment in the first week after hospitalization of the patient is

essential to minimize unfavorable clinical outcomes

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• FALSE

Low Mass Muscle is observed not only in malnourished or underweight individuals but also in eutrophic, overweight, or obese patients

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• FALSE

The initiation

of feeding in the early postoperative period has numerous positive

effects, EXCEPT one. Please mark it:

• Earlier flatus

• Less time to stool passage

• Higher postoperative ileus

• Lower analgesic consumption

The stressful condition produced in the body by surgical trauma

can cause a hypovolemic fluid balance, especially in the first day

after surgery.

• TRUE

• FALSE