TY  - JOUR
TI  - Nutritional Status of Pediatric Intensive Care Patients with Chronic  Disease
AB  - Objective: This study aims to evaluate the relationship between enteral nutrition and mortality in children with  chronic diseases who need to be hospitalized in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Method: The data of the patients who were admitted to intensive care between January 2014 and December 2019  were retrospectively supplied from the hospital database. Demographic data, the presence of underlying diseases,  the diagnoses during intensive care admission, the history of previous hospitalization, homecare requirement, the  presence of gastrostomy, feeding type during homecare before hospitalization, the amount and type of nutrition  were recorded. Results: A total of 186 patients hospitalized in the PICU due to an acute critical illness and with an underlying  chronic disease were included in the study. The median age was 49 (17.75-104.5) months, it was observed that  53.8% of the patients were required homecare. The most common chronic disease was central nervous system  pathologies accompanied by neurological impairment in swallowing functions (37.3%), while the most common  cause of the acute disease was lower respiratory tract infections (48.9%). The overall mortality was 9.7%, and it  was found that the majority of the patients who were died were the patients requiring homecare and fed with  nasogastric tube at home (p=0.002, p=0.014). Conclusion: It is observed that patients with percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy are relatively low, hence  feeding tube is frequently preferred in children with dysphagia during homecare. However, it is demonstrated that  the feeding tube is an independent risk factor for mortality
AU  - Sarac sandal, özlem
AU  - Ongun, Ebru Atike
AU  - ceylan, gokhan
DO  - 10.4274/buchd.galenos.2022.36459
PY  - 2022
JO  - İzmir Dr. Behçet Uz Çocuk Hastanesi Dergisi
VL  - 12
IS  - 2
SN  - 2146-2372
SP  - 128
EP  - 135
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/1109832
ER  -