Evaluation of Nutritional Status of Intensive Care Unit COVID-19 Patients Based on the Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 Score.

Sedigheh Ahmadi Donya Firoozi Mohammad Dehghani Morteza Zare Zeinab Mehrabi Maryam Ghaseminasab-Parizi Seyed Jalil Masoumi

Published in: International journal of clinical practice (2022)

NRS-2002 is a valuable prognostic tool for critically ill COVID-19 patients, with each unit's rise in the score being associated with a 354% rise in the odds of mortality. Increased malnutrition risk was linked with higher age and BUN and lower albumin and hematocrit levels.

Keyphrases

intensive care unit
sars cov
risk factors
cardiovascular disease
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation