Ex 2: ASPN/AND Malnutrition Guidelines

Question 1

What are the three broad classes of malnutrition?

Answer 1

Acute disease/injury ; chronic disease related; starvation related

Question 2

Inflammation signs

Answer 2

increased T, HR, RR, BP, WBC, CRP, glucose, and depleted albumin

Question 3

How many criteria does a patient have to meet in order to be diagnosed with malnutrition?

Answer 3

x should be greater than or equal to 2

Question 4

Muscle Wasting regions

Answer 4

Temple, clavicle, shoulders, scapula/ribs, quadriceps, calf, interosseous muscles (lower extremities inactivity, upper extremities protein malnutrition)

Question 5

Fat wasting

Answer 5

orbital area, triceps, mid axillary