Nutritional Intakes in Burn Patients Treated as Outpatients

University of Liege

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nutritional Deficiency; Burns

Treatments: Other: Burn injury

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03914560

ABA

Details and patient eligibility

About

Nutrition is a key component of burn care. The primary goal of nutrition is to provide adequate supply in macro and micronutrients that are necessary to maintain organ function but also to wound healing, infection control and muscle preservation.

Studies about nutrition and burn care are mainly focused on severe burn patients. There is a few or no data regarding nutrition in minor burns. Those patients rarely receive a multidisciplinary approach, at least in Belgium.

The present study aimed to describe the nutritional condition of less severe burn patients treated as outpatients in a Belgian burn center. The ultimate goal was to determine whether this population needs specific dietetics follow-up or not.

Enrollment: 51 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1+ year old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Burn treated exclusively in an outpatient clinic

Exclusion criteria

• Not french speaking
• Psychiatric disorders
• Patient refusal