ABSTRACT

One of the routine treatments in the intensive care is diet. The importance of the diet in the intensive care unit is because malnutrition is very common in the intensive care patients. Even though the information at hand cannot be able to show the effect of diet on survival shorter than 1 week, diet has a great importance in relation to the prevention of the morbidity in the intensive care unit due to malnutrition. This study aims to inspect the relationship between time of hospitalization, patient mortality, albumin and protein levels of the patients on the intensive care unit diet.

In the study 50 of the patients who are staying at the intensive care with the diagnosis of sepsis during 2012 (33 males and 17 females) have been chosen as randomized and their data is studied retrospectively.

The results show a significant relationship between low albumin and protein levels and long patient hospitalization process. Also the high rates of albumin levels are inversely proportional with the patient mortality are among the data gathered. Further studies will be leading the way for the better understanding of the importance of diets among intensive care patients.

Further studies will be more enlightening in terms of providing a better grasp on nutrition of intensive care unit patients.

Keywords: Intensive care unit, nutrition, albumin