[Incidence of malnutrition in a surgery department]. / Incidencia de la desnutrición en un servicio de cirugía.

ABSTRACT

Presentation of a description of the initial results obtained in nutritional evaluation of patients admitted for elective surgery during a 6-month period. A total of 212 patients were studied, recording malnutrition in 25%. This was severe in half of the cases. As a result of the malnutrition, a significant reduction was observed in the number of positive responses to the Multitest and the total count of lymphocytes.