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Chapter 11 & 12 - Nutrition In Pt. Care Flashcards

1
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What are the 2 potential risk factors for becoming malnourished?

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Primary: inadequate nutrient intake

Secondary: caused by disease or iatrogenic effects

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Iatrogenic malnutrition?

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Caused by treatment or diagnostic procedures

Screenings and monitoring helps identify patients at risk

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Anthropometric Assessment?

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  • simple noninvasive techniques
    - height
    - weight
    - head circumference
    - skinfold thickness
  • BMI (normal = 18.5-24.9)
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4
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Biochemical Assessment?

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  • Most important indicators
    - visceral pain status
    - immune function
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Clinical assessment?

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  • Sources of data
    - medical history
    - social history
    - physical exam
  • features associated with nutritional deficiencies
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Dietary intake assessment?

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  • 24-hour recall
  • food records
  • kcal counts
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Nutritional Assessment involves What?

(A, B, C, D)

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  • Anthropometric Assessment
  • Biochemical Assessment
  • Clinical Assessment
  • Dietary intake Assessment
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8
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What age groups have a moderate Nutritional Risk?

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  • Adults age 65-75

- children over age 5

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9
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What age groups have a high Nutritional Risk?

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  • 75yrs and older

- children under 5yrs of age

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10
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Examples of Basic Hospital Diets?

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  • Clear liquid diet
  • Full liquid diet
  • Mechanically altered diet
  • Soft diet
  • Regular / General diet
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11
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What are examples of feeding modalities?

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  • NPO
  • alternate route
  • clear liquid diet
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12
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What kind of diet is inadequate in energy and almost all nutrients except water?

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Clear liquid diet

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13
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What kind of diet should not be used for more than 24 hours?

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Clear liquid diet

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14
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Relationship to hospital malnutrition occurs with what type of diet?

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Clear liquid diet

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15
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A Full Liquid Diet is what?

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Foods that are liquid at room temperature

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16
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What kind of diet can supply ADEQUATE energy and nutrients?

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Full Liquid Diet

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17
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What is a safety concern with a Full Liquid Diet?

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Avoid use of raw eggs

18
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What kind of diet is concerned with high saturated fats and cholesterol?

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Full Liquid Diet

19
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Mechanically Altered Diets are what?

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  • chopped
  • ground
  • mashed
  • puréed
20
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Mechanically Altered Diets are used for what types of patients?

A

Patients with chewing or swallowing difficulties

21
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What is important to remember about Mechanically Altered Diets?

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Food consistency altered only to the degree needed

22
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What do soft diets consist of?

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Whole Foods low in fiber and lightly seasoned

23
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What kind of diet is considered a “transition diet” ?

24
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What is the typical order of diet progression?

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Clear—> soft—> normal

25
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What diet serves as the basis for modified diets?

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Regular or general diet

26
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Enteral Nutrition?

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Enteral feeding by tube

27
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Enteral feeding by tube is appropriate when what?

A

When the gut is functioning

28
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What are Enteral feeding routes?

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  • nasogastric
  • nasoduodenal
  • nasojejunal
  • esophagostomy
  • gastrostomy
  • jejunostomy
  • percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG)
29
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Methods of Enteral nutrition administration?

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  • Continuous
  • intermittent (delivering food @ same rate)
  • bolus (no pump?)
30
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Feeding tubes used for a short duration are placed how?

A

Nonsurgical placement

31
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Feeding tubes that are used for a long duration are placed how?

A

Surgical placement

32
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Enteral feeding tube placement must be confirmed with what?

33
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Parenteral Nutrition?

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Energy and Nutrients delivered via IV (directly into the vein)

34
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Parenteral Nutrition does what?

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Provides nutrients to patients who can’t or won’t eat and tube feedings are contraindicated

35
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Parenteral Nutrition doesn’t require what?

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DONT need a functioning gut

Bypasses it and goes directly into vein

36
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Components of Parenteral Nutrition solutions?

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  • carbohydrates
  • amino acids
  • fats
  • total nutrient admixtures: 3 in 1 system
  • electrolytes
  • vitamins
  • trace elements
  • bioactive substances
37
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What monitoring should you do for parenteral Nutrition?

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  • Lab work

- Weight

38
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What is the most common complication of Parenteral Nutrition?

A

Pneumothorax

39
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What is the most common metabolic complication of Parenteral Nutrition?

A

Hyperglycemia

40
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What is the most extreme type of nutrition?

A

Parenteral

41
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What is the order of transitional feedings?

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Parenteral —> oral or tube feeding

42
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Long periods of PN without enteral feedings result in what?

A

Atrophy of the GI tract

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