The nutritional status of our surgical patients is important because both undernutrition and overnutrition are risk factors for poor healing and complications. Therefore, a screen for nutritional status should be a part of any surgical consultation. This could potentially be an informal screen, but as surgeons we must think about it.

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How Do You Define and Detect Malnutrition in a Surgical Patient?

  • James M. Church

摘要

The nutritional status of our surgical patients is important because both undernutrition and overnutrition are risk factors for poor healing and complications. Therefore, a screen for nutritional status should be a part of any surgical consultation. This could potentially be an informal screen, but as surgeons we must think about it.