In-hospital mortality rate was 11% (four multiple organ dysfunction, one bowel infarction), mean length of stay was 32 ± 30 days, three patients (6%) were discharged to a nursing home, and one (2%) was discharged home on parenteral nutrition (duration 4 months).
Our aim was to assess the effects of a new probiotic in an early enteral regimen on clinical outcome of severe TBI patients, in terms of VAP incidence, tolerance to enteral nutrition, duration of mechanical ventilation, and mortality rate.
Episodes of ICH, modifications on the control CT (bleeding, herniation or brain swelling), osmotherapy and/or barbiturate use, transfusion, vasopressor use, time to achieve more than 50% of goal calories of enteral nutrition, duration of mechanical ventilation, length of ICU stay and mortality rate were also recorded in the ICU.
We assessed the VAP incidence, duration of mechanical ventilation, tolerance to enteral nutrition, length of ICU stay, duration of diarrhea episodes, and mortality rate.
Contradicting or divergent results on other secondary outcomes were found for ICU length of stay, hospital length of stay, infection rates, nutrition targets, duration of mechanical ventilation, glucose control, duration of renal replacement therapy, muscle wasting and fat loss.
Resource use was generally greater in patients with HCAP (n = 245) than with CAP (n = 1,607), including rates of fluid resuscitation, requirement for isolation and parenteral nutrition, and duration of renal failure.
An English study found only limited support for this hypothesis [ 21] while a recent study in the Netherlands [ 22] concluded that physical activity − but not nutrition, sleeping duration or moderate alcohol intake − acted as a mediating factor in the association between neighbourhood social capital and individual health.
32 A standard pretested questionnaire was used to obtain information on biodata and to evaluate determinants of malnutrition such as parental education, occupation and income, family size, birth order, birth weight and nutrition history (duration of breastfeeding, age at weaning, weaning diet, 24 h dietary recall).
Data were analyzed for age, sex, size of the diverticulum, duration of surgery, length of feeding tube nutrition, length of hospitalization stay, and complications.
Researchers of child and adolescent obesity have mainly focused on individual factors such as gender, socio-economic position, physical activity, sedentary habits, nutrition and sleep duration [ 12, 13, 19].
To account for the confounding effect of duration of nutrition exposure, the prescribed calories received by each patient were adjusted for evaluable nutrition days [ 32].
