[The effect of the composition of the enteral nutrition on infection in the critical patient]

Abstract

We have conducted a prospective, randomized study to evaluate the influence of the immuno-modulatory nutrition Impact, on septic complications, and on the morbido-mortality of 30 patients who were admitted to our Critical Care Unit. This unit, situated in a tertiary care hospital, is composed of 11 beds, into which are admitted traumatic, medical and surgical patients. The patients admitted to this study had Apache II scores > 10; TISS > 20 and/or CGS > or = 9. The diet of the study was compared with Precitene Hiperproteico. We did not find statistically significant difference in the biochemical-immunological parameters studied, in the incidence of the septic morbido-mortality, nor in the time stayed in the Unit, although in the latter, we observed a tendency towards decrease in those patients who received the supplemented diet.