Why the study?
Does malnourished status increase postoperative complications in patients undergoing abdominal surgery?
Does malnourished status increase postoperative complications in patients undergoing abdominal surgery?
Malnutrition is associated with a significantly increased risk of postoperative complications in patients undergoing abdominal surgery.
Malnutrition associated with higher complications after abdominal surgery; supports screening but leaves causal benefit of intervention open.
A simple nutritional assessment was performed in 92 consecutive patients undergoing abdominal surgery, excluding appendicitis. The patients were given a nutritional score, and on the basis of that score were described as malnourished or normal. There was a statistically significant increase in postoperative complications in the malnourished group. This increase was observed in both the major and the minor complication groups, and also when septic and non-septic, and wound and non-wound, complications were considered.
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