The Latin American and Spanish Survey on Nutrition in Pediatric Intensive Care (ELAN-CIP2)

Objective: To characterize the practices of nutritional support in Latin American and Spanish PICUs. Design: Survey with a questionnaire sent to Latin American Society of Pediatric Intensive Care members. Setting: PICUs of participant hospitals. Patients: Critically ill children between 1 month and 18 years old. Interventions: None. Measurements and Main Results: Forty-seven surveys from 17 countries were analyzed. Sixty-seven percent of PICUs were from university-affiliated hospitals, with a median of 380 admissions/yr. Sixty-eight percent and 48.9% had a nutritional support team and nutritional support protocol, respectively. Seventy-five percent completed nutritional evaluations, with 34.2% at admission. PICUs with high-volume admissions were likely to have a nutritional support team (p

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