Protocolo de atención nutricional en pacientes con parálisis cerebral y desnutrición protéico energético que acuden al Hospital Alfonso Villagómez de la ciudad de Riobamba durante el año 2019-2021.

Abstract

The objective was to design a Nutritional Care Protocol for patients with Cerebral Palsy and protein-energy malnutrition treated at the Alfonso Villagómez Pediatric Hospital. This research project was analytical, transversal and retrospective in nature. In this study it was observed that the majority of patients with Infantile Cerebral Palsy were male and indigenous. The prevalence of malnutrition was 34.5%. The nutritional problems with the highest incidence were gastroesophageal reflux (30.6%) and constipation (19%). Another obvious problem was anemia, which was present in half of the patients, resulting in an association between nutritional status and anemia, observing that the p value was less than a value of p 0.05, resulting in statistical significance. In addition to the association between state nutritional malnutrition and oral feeding, a p value of less than 0.05 was found, resulting in statistical significance. It is concluded that patients with Infantile Cerebral Palsy suffer several difficulties in maintaining a nutritional status within the normal parameters indicated by the World Health Organization (WHO).