Introduction
  Evaluation
  Short of breath
  Too tired
  The dwindles
  Weight loss
  Healing
  Chemotherapy
  Mom to be
  Very sociable
 
   Thanks To
   Quiz
 
 
 
 Mark W. Braun, MD
 braunm@indiana.edu

 
   Nutrition and Diagnosis-Related Care

 

 
 

The physical exam and nutritional status. (Click here for this part of the worksheet.)
 
Assessing fat stores
  • Orbital fat pads
  • Triceps skin fold
  • Fat overlying lower ribs
  • Record the score and transfer to Box D on the first page.

Muscle status
  • Temporalis
  • Clavicles
  • Shoulders
  • Interosseous muscles of the hands
  • Scapula, thigh, calf
  • Record the score and transfer to Box D.

Fluid status
  • Ankle edema (ambulatory patient)
  • Sacral edema (bedfast patient)
  • Ascites (abdominal fluid)
  • Record the score and transfer to Box D.

Now for the total score.

 
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