How to assess nutritional status of a patient
How to assess the nutritional status of a patient in clinical practice? - This is a very commonly asked question in exams and often a neglected topic in studies as well as in clinics when we are actually seeing a patient. The talk outlines the nutritional assessment of a patient, especially a surgical patient and highlights the key points to keep in mind practically.
The video will help you master nutritional assessment and will also help in your exams. The presentation starts with an explanation of the spectrum of malnutrition as well as an explanation of novel terms such as sarcopenia and frailty. It then explains how malnutrition adversely affects surgical outcomes and then focuses on practical aspects of stepwise nutritional assessment.
Nutritional assessment tools like subjective global assessment and nutritional risk score are also discussed in the video. Towards the end, the video explains the nutritional assessment as done in outpatient and inpatient departments in a step-wise manner. The video will definitely help clear the concepts related to this topic. So, let us have a look.