Annals of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism

Jung-Tae Kim

2 Articles

Nutritional Therapy Related Complications in Hospitalized Adult Patients: A Korean Multicenter Trial: Eun-Mi Seol, Kye Sook Kwon, Jeong Goo Kim, Jung-Tae Kim, Jihoon Kim, Sun-Mi Moon, Do Joong Park, Jung Hyun Park, Je Hoon Park, Ji Young Park, Jung-Min Bae, Seung Wan Ryu, Ji-Young Sul, Dong Woo Shin, Cheung Soo Shin, Byung Kyu Ahn, Soo Min Ahn, Hee Chul Yu, Gil Jae Lee, Sanghoon Lee, A Ran Lee, Jae Young Jang, Hyun Jeong Jeon, Sung Min Jung, Sung-Sik Han, Suk-Kyung Hong, Sun-Hwi Hwang, Yunhee Choi, Hyuk-Joon Lee; J Clin Nutr 2019;11(1):12-22. Published online June 30, 2019; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15747/jcn.2019.11.1.12

Purpose:

Nutritional therapy (NT), such as enteral nutrition (EN) or parenteral nutrition (PN), is essential for the malnourished patients. Although the complications related to NT has been well described, multicenter data on symptoms in the patients with receiving NT during hospitalization are still lacking.

Methods:

Nutrition support team (NST) consultations, on which NT-related complications were described, were collected retrospectively for one year. The inclusion criteria were patients who were (1) older than 18 years, (2) hospitalized, and (3) receiving EN or PN at the time of NST consultation. The patients’ demographics (age, sex, body mass index [BMI]), type of NT and type of complication were collected. To compare the severity of each complication, the intensive care unit (ICU) admission, hospital stay, and type of discharge were also collected.

Results:

A total of 14,600 NT-related complications were collected from 13,418 cases from 27 hospitals in Korea. The mean age and BMI were 65.4 years and 21.8 kg/m². The complications according to the type of NT, calorie deficiency (32.4%, n=1,229) and diarrhea (21.6%, n=820) were most common in EN. Similarly, calorie deficiency (56.8%, n=4,030) and GI problem except for diarrhea (8.6%, n=611) were most common in PN. Regarding the clinical outcomes, 18.7% (n=2,158) finally expired, 58.1% (n=7,027) were admitted to ICU, and the mean hospital days after NT-related complication were 31.3 days. Volume overload (odds ratio [OR]=3.48) and renal abnormality (OR=2.50) were closely associated with hospital death; hyperammonemia (OR=3.09) and renal abnormality (OR=2.77) were associated with ICU admission; “micronutrient and vitamin deficiency” (geometric mean [GM]=2.23) and volume overload (GM=1.61) were associated with a longer hospital stay.

Conclusion:

NT may induce or be associated with several complications, and some of them may seriously affect the patient’s outcome. NST personnel in each hospital should be aware of each problem during nutritional support.

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Survey on the State of Nutrition Support Team (NST) Activity: Comparison of the Questionnaire Survey 2016 vs. 2005 and the State of NST Activity since the Introduction of the Medical Insurance Fee: Ji-Yoon Cho, Jung-Tae Kim, Seoung-Lan Kim; J Clin Nutr 2016;8(2):38-44. Published online August 31, 2016; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15747/jcn.2016.8.2.38

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The Korean Society of Health-System Pharmacists (KSHP) and Korean Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (KSPEN) jointly performed a nation-wide questionnaire survey on the current state of Nutrition Support Team (NST) activity from March to May of 2016. The aim of the survey was to suggest ways to develop NST as well as to improve the relationship between the KSHP and KSPEN. Compared to the results of the 2005 survey, some progress was made in the activity of NST over the last decade. Not only was the activity of NST settled, but quantitative and qualitative growth was also achieved by activating rounds and regular meeting. On the other hand, the ratio of hospitals providing home care services has decreased. Therefore, further effort is needed for their revitalization.