Aringazina A. M., Kolpakova A.S.

 (KAZAKHSTAN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY "KSPH", Almaty)

 

Organization of clinical nutrition at the hospital

Review: Clinical nutrition can be as the meal, fully meets the needs of patient body in nutrients and especially taking into account how it occurring in the metabolic processes and the status of individual functional systems.

Key words: nutrition, hospital, patient diet .

Everyone knows that food is necessary for normal functioning of the body. Nutrition is a set of processes including entry into the body, digestion, absorption and assimilation of the nutrients, that is an integral part of the metabolism.

         The nutrition satisfies as one of the most important physiological needs of the human body, providing its formation, operation, resistance to adverse environmental effects, but also it plays an important role in the prevention and treatment of many diseases. Special organized clinical nutrition is a prerequisite of many diseases treatment. Clinical nutrition can be as the meal, fully meets the needs of the body of the patient in nutrients and especially taking into a count how it occurring in the metabolic processes and the status of individual functional systems.

In accordance with the physiological principles of health food constructions diets are made in the form of daily food rations. Each daily food patient's diet, in other words, has its energy value, caloric content, chemical composition (certain amount of protein, fats, carbohydrates, minerals, water, vitamins, extractives, and other materials), or physical properties like: weight (amount), consistency, temperature of the food and finally, the routine of diet. All of this are the main elements of the diets, which are practically realized in the form of a menu of specific products corresponding cooking processing [1,2].

In the Republic of Kazakhstan all the principles of construction and system of clinical nutrition appointment are written in the resolution of the Government from January 26, 2002 ¹128 “On approval of natural food rules and the minimum standards for equipment soft inventory of public health organizations of the RK”[3]. The another main document concerning the clinical nutrition is the Decree of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan from April 8, 2002 ¹343 “On the organization of clinical nutrition in health prevention organizations” [4].

Nutrition of the patient is of great importance not only to restore the disease occurring during losses in the body and to maintain the force, but also as an effective therapeutic agent. Modern science found that during any disease the diet has some impact, and in some cases has a decisive influence on the course and outcome of disease.

There are two systems that are used in the appointment of clinical nutrition: elemental and dietary [5,6]. The elemental appointment of clinical nutrition is made for each patient by writing a specific recipe transfer performance of each element of the daily diet; the daily menu is made on the basis of this recipe. This system is referred to as an individual, but this definition is not entirely true, because properly organized clinical nutrition necessarily requires an individual diet destination. If the elemental system is developed by physician for each patient's individual diet, dietary system is prescribed by the number of pre-designed, clinically proven and have certain medicinal properties of diets.

The basic system of medical and health care institutions is a system of dietary nutritional therapy appointment. The elemental system can practically be used only in rare cases, when developed and applied in the hospital diets are in need of amendments, taking into account the complexity and the specific conditions of the patient’s disease [7].

The specific issue of dietary system is adjusting the prescribed diet. Such additional purpose or dietary restrictions should be carried out by designating products having specific therapeutic properties (cottage cheese, liver, milk, watermelon, apples, garlic, etc.), or by adding or limiting nutrients (proteins, fats, carbohydrates, salt, vitamins). Further designation of special products must correspondingly be reduced in the content of other dietary products to maintain essentially the chemical composition and calorific intake.

It is common knowledge that each diet has its characteristics, the number of the diets is determined by the profile of the hospital. In each hospital, the main, permanent diet and contrasting days are established. The average number of the diets in hospital is 7–8 [8].

The routine of the diet is essential to the effective operation of clinical nutrition, which consists of the number of meals, time of patient’s nutrition, nutritional value and volume of food received for 1 time.

Since the Soviet times hospitals have established at least four meals mode, but for the some groups of patients (heart diseases, stomach ulcer, infectious diseases and others) have had 5–6 times mode [9,10]. It is necessary to strive for a more or less uniform distribution of the daily diet, but in any case not to allow a significant amount of high-calorie dinner; usually in the evening should not account for more than 25–30% of daily calorie routine. Between the individual meals should not be allowed a break of more than 4 hours during the day and between the last evening meal and morning breakfast break should be no more than 10–11 hours (Table 1).

Table 1 – Uniform distribution of daily diet

Hours

Caloric value in % to daily ration

8–9 (breakfast)

30

13–14 (lunch)

40

17–18 (dinner)

20–25

21 (overnight)

5–10

Source: Michael J. Gibney et al, 2010  

 

         According to the 5 times nutrition mode the tiffin is set, to the 6 times nutrition mode – afternoon snack with more or less uniform distribution of the daily diet. It is necessary to include hot food in each meal of the patient. The temperature of the liquid hot dishes should be about 60 C, and the second hot dishes – about 55 C [13,14]. The rate of the daily food ration is set in the characteristic of each diet. The chemical composition and caloric value of each is provided by the corresponding set of products. On the basis of the food basket and the degree of use in hospital diets hospital established need in the grocery supply.

Typically, clinical nutrition is administered in combination with other therapies (drugs pharmacological, physiotherapeutic procedures and etc). In some cases, the nutritional therapy serves as one of the main therapeutic factors for the patients with the digestive system diseases or metabolic diseases, in other cases it creates a favorable background for the more effective implementation of other therapeutic measures.

Clinical nutrition should be tailored to the physiological needs of the patient. Therefore, any diet should meet the following requirements [15,16]:

1) to vary, but their energy value in accordance with the power consumption of the organism;

2) to provide the body's need for nutrients based on their balance;

3) to cause an optimal filling of the stomach necessary to achieve easy satiety;

4) to satisfy the tastes of the patient to the extent permitted by the diet, taking into account the tolerance of food and menu variety. Monotonous food quickly bored, helps oppression and loss of appetite, lack of digestive organs arousal activity impairs digestion [17];

5) to ensure proper cooking of food while maintaining the high palatability of food and valuable properties of raw foods;

6) to observe the principle of regular meals.

So, clinical nutrition should be sufficiently dynamic. The need for dynamism dictated by the fact that any medical diet in one way or another is restrictive and, therefore, one-sided and incomplete. That’s why long compliance particularly strict diets can lead, on the one hand, to the partial body fasted for certain nutrients, to the other, to not training of functional mechanisms during recovery.

In the conclusion, we would to say, that is very imporant to pay attention on the clinical nutrition (diet), which is prescribed in the form of food ration and is consisted of certain products subjected to appropriate cooking. The word “diet”, which meant in Ancient Greece “lifestyle” after repeated transformation of the original dio, dies (day) today is treated as a “diet and nutrition, prescribed to patients”[18]. Now the science of dietary include nutritionists, who studies nutrition of healthy and sick person, develops the basics of good nutrition and methods of organization and diet therapy (healthy food). Thus, nowadays diet is not only an effective means of complex treatment of many ailments, but also means of contributing to their prevention.

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