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PRIETO O, Robin Germán; NAVAS C, Ángela María  y  MENDIVELSO D, Fredy Orlando. Case Studies of Acute Diarrhea in ICU Patients on Enteral Nutrition. Rev Col Gastroenterol [online]. 2016, vol.31, n.3, pp.235-241. ISSN 0120-9957.

The administration of enteral nutrition (EN) is frequently mentioned as a cause of diarrhea in patients in  Intensive Care Units (ICUs). Because of this, there is a tendency to reduce the use of EN or to even suspend it which often delays patients’ nutritional recovery and incurs risks of associated infections. This is a descriptive study of seven patients that was conducted in the ICU of the Clínica Reina Sofía from July to October 2015. The main criterion for inclusion was the occurrence of diarrhea in patients had been started on EN in the ICU. Statistical analyses used distributions of absolute and relative frequencies expressed in percentages. Measures of central tendency (mean and median) and measures of dispersion (range and standard deviation) were used for quantitative variables. The Shapiro-Wilk test was used to analyze normality. During the study period seven patients receiving EN who had episodes of diarrhea were identified. The average age of the patients was 73 years. No direct relationships between episodes of of diarrhea and administration of enteral nutrition could be established

Palabras clave : Enteral nutrition; acute diarrhea; Intensive Care Unit.

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