Nutritional status of surgical patients, who underwent operations on gastrointestinal tract

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of nutritional insufficiency among surgical patients at admission and after operation. In 7 days after operation about 44% of patients had nutritional insufficiency medium and severe degree. Indicators of somatic and visceral protein pool decreased in all patients in 7 days after operation, but only changes of body weight, albumin and hematocrit had statistically significant difference.