Malnutrition is associated with clinical outcomes in mechanically ventilated patients with pneumonia and other lung manifestations: A retrospective cohort.

Background: Malnutrition is a highly prevalent condition in patients who are critically ill that has been previously associated with adverse clinical outcomes. The aims of this study are to describe the prevalence of malnutrition using Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria and analyze the associations with clinical outcomes using original criteria or the presence of one phenotypic criterion with inflammation measured by C-reactive protein (CRP) in patients with pneumonia and other lung manifestations who are mechanically ventilated.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study included patients who are critically ill.

Validity of bioelectric impedance analysis for body composition assessment in interstitial lung disease patients.

Background: changes in body composition (BC) are common in interstitial lung disease, which leads to an increased risk of complications and infections, and are associated with poor quality of life and worse outcomes. BC assessment is important to identify malnutrition and sarcopenia. However, gold-standard techniques are not available in all clinical settings.

Feeding intolerance during prolonged prone position in overweight and obese patients with severe COVID-19.

Objective: the aim of this study was to compare the incidence rate of feeding intolerance (FI) during supine (SP) or prone positioning (PP) in critically ill COVID-19 patients. Methods: this was a retrospective cohort study of critically ill patients with overweight or obesity who received enteral nutrition (EN) in prone or supine positioning continuously during the first five days of mechanical ventilation. Nutritional risk, anthropometric measurements and body composition were assessed at the first 24 hours upon Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission.

International on-line questionnaire about severe lower gastrointestinal bleeding management: Do we have it clear?

Background And Aims: The diagnostic and therapeutic strategy in severe lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB) varies depending on the patient's clinical situation. Actual clinical practice guidelines propose different management strategies. We aim to know the attitude of the gastroenterologists from different hospitalary centers in the management of this entity.

Spiritual pain as part of the hospitalization experience of children and adolescents with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A phenomenological study.

Purpose: To explore the experience of hospitalization among children and adolescents in treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Methods: Qualitative phenomenological study informed by grounded theory and involving a convenience sample of children and adolescents attending an oncology unit in Spain. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with seven children aged between 9 and 18 years and analyzed using ATLAS.

Perceptions of diabetes obtained through drawing in childhood and adolescence.

Objective: To examine whether drawing is useful in the detection of problems of psychosocial adaptation in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and in improving communication with health professionals.

Methods: We performed an exploratory descriptive study in 199 children and adolescents with T1D aged 4-13 years. The participants were asked to render a drawing on a suggested topic.