title: [Nutritional assessment of patients before surgery].
abstract: The identification of nutritional status is one of the objectives of the anaesthesia consultation often difficult to achieve routinely. It usually requires the use of multiple indicators, which are complex for a non-nutrition specialist. In preoperative period, nutritional assessment should be easy to do in order to identify patients who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition and relevant information about nutritional risk should be registered in the patient chart. To facilitate this evaluation, we propose a stratification of nutritional risk in four grades (NG) using three types of simple and validated parameters: preoperative nutritional status (BMI, weight loss, eventually serum albumin), comorbidities and kind of surgery. This stratification can develop a tailored nutritional care for each patient.
authors.affiliation: Département anesthésie-réanimation, institut Paoli-Calmettes, 232, boulevard de Sainte-Marguerite, 13273 Marseille cedex 9, France. FRANCOND@marseille.fnclcc.fr
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Francon
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chambrier
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sztark
mesh_terms: D015992:Body Mass Index; D006801:Humans; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D009752:Nutritional Status; D018529:Nutritional Support / Q000379:methods; D019990:Perioperative Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality; D011300:Preoperative Care / Q000379:methods*; D018570:Risk Assessment