background: new technologies using hazardous materials usually have certain risks. it is more serious when the technology is supposed to be applied in a large scale and become widely used by many people. the objective of this paper was to evaluate the risk of vapor cloud explosion in a hydrogen production process. methods: potential hazards were identified using the conventional hazard identifi...

In clinical practice, the assessment of nutritional status in children can be problematic. More than one indicator is often required: these may include anthropometric measurements, body compartment analysis and biochemical markers. The nutritional status of children at the time of admission to hospital can impact adversely on their hospital stay. Furthermore, children’s medical conditions may a...

Objective Poor recognition and monitoring of nutritional status is the most important cause of malnutrition in hospitalized patients. The aim of this study was to assess the nutritional status of a group of patients and compare the results with their serum prealbumin levels. Methods Ninety-seven patients admitted consecutively to the hospital were enrolled in the study. The risk of malnutrition...

The essence of nutritional assessment is to determine the adequacy of the diet so that risk of disease might be limited and productivity and longevity might be enhanced. Knowledge of nutritional status, whether of an individual or of an animal population, is important for evaluation of captive management or quality of the wild habitat. This technical paper reviews some of the techniques for ass...

Orthopaedic patients with poor nutritional status are at an increased risk of postoperative complications, such as infection and wound healing. Nasal colonization with Staphylococcus aureus, especially with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, has been shown to be a risk factor for surgical-site infections. We examined the incidence of nutritional depletion in our arthroplasty populatio...

The nutritional status of patients with head and neck cancer has been suspected as being a significant risk factor for surgical complications and cancer recurrence. Clinical dietary assessment was performed on a mixed group of 42 previously untreated, head and neck cancer patients scheduled to receive surgery with curative intent. Cox regression analysis was performed to investigate the relatio...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is a prevalent complication in patients on maintenance hemodialysis. Nutritional screening tools may be useful to identify those patients at nutritional risk from among hundreds of hemodialysis patients in a large facility. OBJECTIVE We tested several simplified nutritional screening tools on hemodialysis patients to validate the potential application of the tools. D...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Malnutrition in the elderly is a serious problem, prevalent in both hospitals and care homes. Due to the absence of a gold standard for malnutrition, herein we evaluate the efficacy of five nutritional screening tools developed or used for the elderly. SUBJECTS/METHODS Elected medical records of 141 elderly patients (86 men and 55 women, aged 73.5 ± 5.2 years) hospitaliz...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between nutritional status and rehabilitation outcome in elderly inpatients with hospital-associated deconditioning. DESIGN A prospective cohort study. SUBJECTS/PATIENTS One hundred sixty-nine consecutive elderly inpatients diagnosed with hospital-associated deconditioning. METHODS Nutritional status at referral was assessed by the Mini Nutritional...