Publications by authors named "Maria da Guia Bezerra da Silva"
Introduction: many factors can have a negative influence over surgical results, such as a compromised nutritional status and the extension of the perioperative fasting time.
Objective: to evaluate the influence of the nutritional status and the perioperative fasting time over the occurrence of surgical complications and over hospital stay, in patients who have undergone surgery of the gastrointestinal tract and/or abdominal wall, and who were subjected to a nutritional care protocol.
Methods: cohort study, conducted with 84 patients, from June to November 2014.
Nutritional status and its impact on time and relocation in postoperative complications of abdominal patients undergoing surgery.
Nutr Hosp
September 2014
Introduction: The nutritional state is the independent factor that most influences the post-operational results in elective surgeries.
Objective: to evaluate the influence of the nutritional state on the hospitalization period and on the post-operative complications of patients submitted to abdominal surgery.
Methods: prospective study with 99 surgical patients over 18 years of age, submitted to abdominal surgeries in the period from April to October of 2013, in the Instituto de Medicina Integral Professor Fernando Figueira (IMIP).